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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world`s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news178904818.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-12-01T15:51:26-07:00 A series of newly discovered pits in the bottom of the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles southeast of New York Harbor, may be a key ingredient for the abundant and diverse marine ecosystem in and around the canyon, according to research by scientists from Rutgers University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.physorg.com/news178903141.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-12-01T15:20:30-07:00 Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high as they were over the weekend, and lower cloud tops mean less powerful thunderstorms. http://www.physorg.com/news178892788.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-12-01T12:50:01-07:00 The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment - presents the latest research from the icy continent, identifies areas for future scientific research, and addresses the urgent questions that policy makers have about Antarctic melting, sea-level rise and biodiversity. http://www.physorg.com/news178867843.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-12-01T06:00:01-07:00 (AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178867399.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-12-01T05:23:59-07:00 NASA satellites capture amazing views of tropical cyclones, and the Aqua and CloudSat satellites captured a top-down look at temperatures in Typhoon Nida's clouds, and an image of what they look like from the side. http://www.physorg.com/news178819360.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-30T16:04:07-07:00 Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Differences are due to regional and local effects. Increased temperatures are having profound effects on key habitats and on power generation the Arabian Gulf. http://www.physorg.com/news178809198.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-30T13:30:01-07:00 In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all. http://www.physorg.com/news178804829.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-30T12:30:01-07:00 Nida is still holding on to Super Typhoon status in the Western Pacific Ocean, and over the weekend, is forecast to pass east of both Iwo To and Chichi Jima islands. Although the center of Nida will remain at sea, both islands will face heavy surf, gusty winds and heavy rainfall. http://www.physorg.com/news178802680.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-30T11:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought. http://www.physorg.com/news178721126.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-29T12:46:26-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news178547053.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-27T12:25:08-07:00 Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niņo phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These linkages may be important in assessing the regional effects of future climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news178459644.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-26T14:10:05-07:00 NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Cyclone Bongani today and provided some important data that have helped forecasters figure out where the storm is headed, and helped them see that it has changed course. http://www.physorg.com/news178381962.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-25T16:00:02-07:00 Typhoon Nida is in a favorable environment that has enabled it to intensify faster and stronger than previously forecast, and has now exploded into a Super typhoon. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Nida and captured a visible image of the storm revealing a clear eye, which indicates a strong typhoon. http://www.physorg.com/news178381705.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-25T14:31:18-07:00 Imagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion. http://www.physorg.com/news178381626.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-25T14:27:50-07:00 (AP) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said. http://www.physorg.com/news178374623.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-25T12:33:50-07:00 A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the Iberian Peninsula partially offsets the risk of earthquakes. http://www.physorg.com/news178368974.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-25T10:57:11-07:00 (AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178297000.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-24T15:30:01-07:00 Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. Now, a team of researchers from nine institutions - including LSU - have been funded to the tune of $10 million dollars by the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to get to the bottom of things - literally. These scientists will drill through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to directly access a subglacial lake and the cavity below the ice shelf. http://www.physorg.com/news178293790.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-24T14:40:02-07:00 The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change, according to the study, which appears in the November 25 issue of Geophysical Research Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news178293345.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-24T13:56:18-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers for monitoring climate change in the polar regions. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, shows that bacterial communities in the six rivers shifted synchronously over time, correlating with seasonal shifts in hydrology and biogeochemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news178280399.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-24T11:20:01-07:00 A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news178272697.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-24T08:12:24-07:00 A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report. http://www.physorg.com/news178210720.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-23T14:59:10-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremor, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault exhibited almost 11 times more aftershocks than previously thought. The research appears online in Nature Geoscience and will appear in print in a forthcoming edition. http://www.physorg.com/news178201188.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-23T12:50:07-07:00 A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases. http://www.physorg.com/news178200670.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-23T12:12:17-07:00 The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news178122015.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-22T14:50:06-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers. http://www.physorg.com/news177948533.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-20T14:20:07-07:00 Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news177948181.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-20T14:08:11-07:00 From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Nino has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year. http://www.physorg.com/news177921078.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-20T06:50:11-07:00 Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination." http://www.physorg.com/news177873594.html Space & Earth - Earth Sciences 2009-11-19T17:23:28-07:00