News tagged with north atlantic right whales
Monitoring of rare whales near NY harbor ends
Mar 15, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost financing in the current budget crunch.
Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales
Mar 13, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (4) |
0
(AP) -- In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes.
High numbers of right whales seen in Gulf of Maine
Biology /
Jan 02, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
A large number of North Atlantic right whales have been seen in the Gulf of Maine in recent days, leading right whale researchers at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) to believe they have identified ...
Search results for north atlantic right whales
The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms
Nov 09, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...
In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only
Nov 06, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy ...
Newly Discovered Fat Molecule: An Undersea Killer with an Upside
Nov 05, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (10) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean has been found by collaborating scientists at Rutgers University and the Woods Hole ...
Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led ...
North Atlantic fish populations shifting as ocean temperatures warm
Nov 02, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from U.S. waters as they ...
Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...
North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than in Previous 500 Years, Study Says
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (10) |
1
PHILADELPHIA -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century sea-level ...
Remotely Operated Vehicles and Satellite Tags Aid Turtle Studies
Oct 28, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching ...
Autosub6000 dives to depth of 3.5 miles
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, 27 September ...
Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago.
List of search results for north atlantic right whales
