News tagged with oceanic carbon
Time to lift the geoengineering taboo
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Hot on the heels of the Royal Society's Geoengineering the Climate report, September's Physics World contains feature comment from UK experts stressing the need to start taking geoengineering - deliberate interv ...
Ozone hole reduces atmospheric CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Does ozone have an impact on the ocean's role as a "carbon sink"? Yes, according to researchers from France. Using original simulations, they have demonstrated that the hole in the ozone layer reduces atmospheric carbon uptake ...
Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean
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May 08, 2009 |
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Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. The new view is introduced in a substantial paper in Issue 7 (April 2009) of ...
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Burying crop residues at sea may help reduce global warming
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Imagine a massive international effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide - build up in the atmosphere. It involves gathering billions of tons of cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop residue from farm ...
Scientist models the mysterious travels of greenhouse gas
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Feb 16, 2009 |
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The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of forest. But those measurements ...
Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hurricanes are well known for the trail of damage and debris they can leave on land, but less known for the invisible trail left over the ocean by their gale-force winds — a trail of carbon ...
Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong
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Jul 14, 2009 |
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No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.
Nitrogen fixation and phytoplankton blooms in the southwest Indian Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Observations made by Southampton scientists help understand the massive blooms of microscopic marine algae - phytoplankton - in the seas around Madagascar and its effect on the biogeochemistry of the southwest Indian Ocean.
Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor (w/ Video)
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that ...
Lava provides window on early Earth
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Nov 02, 2007 |
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Researchers at Harvard and the University of Hawaii believe they’ve resolved a long-standing controversy over the roots of islands — volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates — showing that the islands’ lava ...
The Antarctic deep sea gets colder
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Apr 21, 2008 |
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The Antarctic deep sea gets colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. This is the first result of the Polarstern expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine ...
Volcanic eruptions wiped out ocean life 93 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 16, 2008 |
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University of Alberta scientists contend they have the answer to mass extinction of animals and plants 93 million years ago. The answer, research has uncovered, has been found at the bottom of the sea floor where lava fountains ...
New research shows how marine organisms help oceans sequester carbon
Jun 09, 2008 |
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As the international search for ways to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the environment intensifies, a team of scientists has identified a process by which marine organisms influence ...
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