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Massive quake moves NZealand closer to Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2009 |
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A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday.
'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage
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Apr 16, 2009 |
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Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two ...
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Tasman Glacier retreat extreme
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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The Tasman Glacier is retreating faster than ever and will ultimately disappear, glaciologists at Massey University are warning.
Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that ...
Scientists find new creatures of Australian deep (Update, Video)
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Jan 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered new marine animals in their search of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders.
Giant ocean eddy shadows Sydney
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Mar 25, 2008 |
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The giant ocean eddy that cooled Sydney's shores a year ago has been superseded by another 300 km diameter giant.
Ancient climate secrets raised from ocean depths
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Feb 01, 2008 |
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Scientists aboard the research vessel, Southern Surveyor, return to Hobart today with a collection of coral samples and photographs taken in the Southern Ocean at greater depths than ever before.
Cold-water eddy 'monsters' mighty current off Sydney
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Mar 13, 2007 |
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Oceanographers have identified a huge, dense mass of cold water off Sydney but know very little about what causes it or the influence it has in the Tasman Sea ecosystem.
Ocean's journey towards the center of the Earth
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically ...
Ocean 'supergyre' link to climate regulator
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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Australian scientists have identified the missing deep ocean pathway – or ‘supergyre’ – linking the three Southern Hemisphere ocean basins in research that will help them explain more accurately how the ocean ...
Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say environmental scientists
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...
Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
Nov 17, 2009 |
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A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging ...
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