News tagged with zones
Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...
Biofuel production could undercut efforts to shrink Gulf 'Dead Zone'
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Scientists in Pennsylvania report that boosting production of crops used to make biofuels could make a difficult task to shrink a vast, oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico more difficult. The ...
Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)
Jul 25, 2009 |
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NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...
Researchers use math to reduce jet lag
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Reducing jet lag is the aim of a new mathematical methodology and software program developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan.
Researchers predict large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'
Jun 18, 2009 |
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University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar ...
'Weedy' bird species may win as temperatures rise
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.
Increasing carbon dioxide and decreasing oxygen make it harder for deep-sea animals to 'breathe'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next ...
Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
Apr 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Water monitor eyes farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
Community provides essential support to military families
Apr 08, 2009 |
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The deployment of military personnel to active war zones, which involves issues of separation, time away from home, and eventual reunion, increases the vulnerability of their families, The heavy reliance on National Guard ...
Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga - shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ...
Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the ...
Threats to biodiversity rise in the world's Mediterranean-climate regions
Feb 17, 2009 |
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In the first systematic analysis of threats to the biodiversity of the world's mediterranean-climate regions, scientists at The Nature Conservancy and UC Davis report that these conservation hotspots are facing significant ...
Climate change may be stoking stronger winds, altered oceans
Feb 02, 2009 |
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The specter of an ocean floor littered with dead shellfish, rock fish, sea stars and other marine life off the Oregon coast spurred Mark Snyder, a climate change expert, to investigate whether California's coast faced a similar ...
New liquefaction hazard maps of Santa Clara Valley, Northern California
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2009 |
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New hazard maps for communities from San Jose to Palo Alto in Northern California delineate the probability of earthquake-induced liquefaction, based on three scenarios: a magnitude 7.8 on the San Andreas ...
