News tagged with salinity
Living on the edge: An innovative model of mangrove-hammock boundaries in Florida
The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface, according to a new model linking coastal forests to groundwater. Just ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Salt water alone unlikely to halt Burmese python invasion
Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine environments, according to research in the latest ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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US warned French implant maker as far back as 2000
The US Food and Drug Administration warned a French maker of breast implants now feared to be at risk of rupture of "serious" quality control violations involving saline implants back in 2000.
Dec 28, 2011 |
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SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s SMOS satellite is designed to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity, but this innovative mission is showing that it can also offer new insight into Earth’s carbon and methane ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Salt-tolerant crops show higher capacity for carbon fixation
Salt can have drastic effects on the growth and yield of horticultural crops; studies have estimated that salinity renders an about one-third of the world's irrigated land unsuitable for crop production. Imbalances in soil ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Aquarius yields NASA's first global map of ocean salinity
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries.
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Sep 23, 2011 |
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Scientists find underground river beneath Amazon
Brazilian scientists have discovered an underground river some 4,000 meters (13,000) feet deep, which flows from west to east like the country's famous waterway.
Aug 25, 2011 |
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NASA to host launch tweetup for Jupiter-bound mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Creatures not adapting to environmental changes in Antarctic, study finds
Organisms found in the Antarctic region are not quick to adapt to changes in the environment, new international research shows. The study, carried out by 200 scientists from 15 countries, is the culmination ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Ocean science satellite blasts off from California
A rocket carrying an Earth-observing satellite launched early Friday on a mission to measure the saltiness of the ocean from space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2011 |
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NASA goes below the surface to understand salinity
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Aquarius mission launches this week, its radiometer instruments will take a "skin" reading of the oceans' salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Rapid changes in Greenland climate last 5,000 years, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Abrupt average temperature changes of as much as 4 or 5 degrees Celsius over a few decades may have profoundly affected human civilization for cultures that occupied western Greenland over ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2011 |
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For Aquarius, sampling seas no 'grain of salt' task
(PhysOrg.com) -- The breakthrough moment for oceanographer Gary Lagerloef, the principal investigator for NASA's new Aquarius mission, came in 1991. That's when he knew it would be possible to make precise ...
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May 26, 2011 |
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Research ship Polarstern returns from Antartica
Bremerhaven, 19 May 2011. The research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will arrive back at its homeport of Bremerhaven after a seven-month expedition ...
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May 19, 2011 |
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NASA ocean-watch satellite ready for June launch
The US space agency said Tuesday it is preparing to launch a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 17, 2011 |
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