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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 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface

Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

More than 100 baby seals rescued on Dutch coast

A Dutch marine rescue centre for baby seals said Friday more than 100 of the sea mammal pups had washed up along the country's northern coastline after recent storms.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

CO2 bonds in sea ice: Small living creatures with major impact

Due to the presence of salts, the freezing point of sea water is below zero. During freezing, channels in which the salt accumulates, so-called "brine channels," are formed in the ice. They serve as a habitat ...

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created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Scientists focus on Salton Sea as possible earthquake risk

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of coincidental news, no sooner had earthquake scientists posted warnings about the instability of the southern part of the San Andreas Fault hidden beneath the Salton Sea, than an ...

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created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Salt marsh sediments help gauge climate-change-induced sea level rise

A newly constructed, 2,000-year history of sea level elevations will help scientists refine the models used to predict climate-change-induced sea level rise, according to an international team of climate researchers. The ...

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created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

How is the Arctic Ocean changing?

On coming Wednesday, 15 June, the research vessel Polarstern of the German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will set off on its 26th arctic expedition. Over 130 scientists ...

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created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How climate change is impacting marshes

It is a very muddy trek from the small boat to the field site along Raccoon Creek near Bridgeport, N.J. Villanova University marine scientist Nathaniel Weston and his team are all carrying ladders and equipment ...

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

International mission to measure saltiness of sea

(AP) -- An international mission will chart the saltiness of the ocean - from outer space.

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created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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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created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New fresh water in Arctic could shift Gulf Stream

Scientists are monitoring a massive pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean that could spill into the Atlantic and potentially alter the key ocean currents that give Western Europe its moderate climate.

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created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Temperature and salt levels of the Western Mediterranean are on the increase

Spanish scientists have analysed the temperature and salt levels of the Western Mediterranean Sea between 1943 and 2000 to study the evolution of each variable. Their research shows that, since at least the ...

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created May 21, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Dead Sea-dwelling microbes reveal roots of protein common to all higher life forms

(PhysOrg.com) -- We have more in common with Dead Sea-dwelling microbes than previously thought. University of Florida researchers have found that one of the most common proteins in complex life forms may have evolved from ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA Heads Out to Sea

NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have ...

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created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0