items tagged with Ocean
Oceans have higher capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-11-11 07:51:10
According to a British study, the amount of carbon dioxide able to be absorbed into Earth’s oceans is much larger than previously thought.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-11-11 07:51:10
According to a British study, the amount of carbon dioxide able to be absorbed into Earth’s oceans is much larger than previously thought.
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Study predicts seabed response to climate change
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-10-14 21:09:07
Offshore infrastructure connected to oil and gas reserves is potentially at risk from the likely impact of climate change on the Australian seabed, according to the CSIRO following its completion of a five-year study.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-10-14 21:09:07
Offshore infrastructure connected to oil and gas reserves is potentially at risk from the likely impact of climate change on the Australian seabed, according to the CSIRO following its completion of a five-year study.
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Did you know that 80% of ocean trash is plastics?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-06-17 08:47:32
According to the UN Environment Programme, 80% of the trash taken from Earth’s oceans consists of plastics such as shopping bags and drinking bottles. The report calls thin film plastic bags "pointless." In other words, we don't need them anymore: get rid of them with a worldwide ban!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-06-17 08:47:32
According to the UN Environment Programme, 80% of the trash taken from Earth’s oceans consists of plastics such as shopping bags and drinking bottles. The report calls thin film plastic bags "pointless." In other words, we don't need them anymore: get rid of them with a worldwide ban!
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Highly credible climate modeling: northeast U.S. at flooding risk
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-04-16 08:27:02
According to a U.S. study of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current, a dramatic increase in the sea level of the northeast coast of the United States is possible by the end of the twenty-first century. Watch out Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-04-16 08:27:02
According to a U.S. study of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current, a dramatic increase in the sea level of the northeast coast of the United States is possible by the end of the twenty-first century. Watch out Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C.
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High-tech 1/X Toyota car may feel at home in the sea
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-23 10:08:53
The 1/X design concept car by the Toyota Motor Corporation may one day use high-technology materials such as environmentally sustainable seaweed for the main material of its body. In the future, Toyota may use ecologically-friendly plant-base materials for all of its cars and trucks.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-23 10:08:53
The 1/X design concept car by the Toyota Motor Corporation may one day use high-technology materials such as environmentally sustainable seaweed for the main material of its body. In the future, Toyota may use ecologically-friendly plant-base materials for all of its cars and trucks.
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Houston, we have a rubber duckie problem!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-12-23 08:22:26
NASA is looking for a few good rubber ducks, and they are willing to pay $100 for each lost duck dropped into the waters within a Greenland glacier.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-12-23 08:22:26
NASA is looking for a few good rubber ducks, and they are willing to pay $100 for each lost duck dropped into the waters within a Greenland glacier.
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DESTROYED: One out of five coral reefs
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-12-11 09:41:31
About 19% of Earth’s coral reefs, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have been destroyed and the other 81% could follow the same path if humans do not actively (and successfully) reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-12-11 09:41:31
About 19% of Earth’s coral reefs, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have been destroyed and the other 81% could follow the same path if humans do not actively (and successfully) reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Never-before-seen marine species discovered in Southern Ocean
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-10 10:37:38
Scientists with the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research unit have discovered hundreds of new marine species while exploring the Southern Ocean among a waterscape of extinct volcanoes.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-10 10:37:38
Scientists with the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research unit have discovered hundreds of new marine species while exploring the Southern Ocean among a waterscape of extinct volcanoes.
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Deepest living fish scooped up, said to be "cute"
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-07 11:37:39
Scientists have recovered the “deepest ever” living fish at 4.8 miles under the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Film of the fish shows them to be living as a family, and described as very active and "cute."
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-07 11:37:39
Scientists have recovered the “deepest ever” living fish at 4.8 miles under the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Film of the fish shows them to be living as a family, and described as very active and "cute."
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Spacecraft Jason 2 completes first surface maps of Earth’s oceans
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-07-31 12:51:55
According to the 7.30.2008 NASA news release, “Ocean surface topography mission/Jason 2 begins mapping oceans,” the internationally sponsored Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) featuring the Jason 2 oceanography satellite is well on its way to completing its mission of monitoring and analyzing global climate change.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-07-31 12:51:55
According to the 7.30.2008 NASA news release, “Ocean surface topography mission/Jason 2 begins mapping oceans,” the internationally sponsored Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) featuring the Jason 2 oceanography satellite is well on its way to completing its mission of monitoring and analyzing global climate change.
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NASA maps potential ocean areas for “green” wind power
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy storage
2008-07-12 11:13:32
NASA scientists have been developing ocean maps for almost ten years using the NASA QuikSCAT satellite. The maps are now being used to find ocean areas where winds could produce an abundance of electrical energy.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy storage
2008-07-12 11:13:32
NASA scientists have been developing ocean maps for almost ten years using the NASA QuikSCAT satellite. The maps are now being used to find ocean areas where winds could produce an abundance of electrical energy.
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Inhumane humans blamed for unhealthy U.S. coral reefs
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-07-08 15:15:50
According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 50% of all coral reefs in U.S. waters are either in “poor” or “fair” condition. NOAA places the blame on their terrible condition on human beings, with one federal official calling humans the “most invasive species of all.”
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-07-08 15:15:50
According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 50% of all coral reefs in U.S. waters are either in “poor” or “fair” condition. NOAA places the blame on their terrible condition on human beings, with one federal official calling humans the “most invasive species of all.”
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French/U.S. Jason 2 launches to measure rising sea levels
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-06-20 10:58:44
NASA announced Friday, June 20, 2008, that the ocean monitoring satellite Jason 2 was launched successfully from the U.S. Air Force’s Vandenberg Air Force Base (California) at 12:46 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), 0746 GMT.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-06-20 10:58:44
NASA announced Friday, June 20, 2008, that the ocean monitoring satellite Jason 2 was launched successfully from the U.S. Air Force’s Vandenberg Air Force Base (California) at 12:46 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), 0746 GMT.
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JOCI grades United States on ocean policy—where’s the dunce cap?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-06-13 16:22:41
The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) grades the states and the U.S. government on their 2007 ocean-policy performance. State and regional governments made the grade, but the federal government needs summer school for a lot of additional tutoring.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-06-13 16:22:41
The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) grades the states and the U.S. government on their 2007 ocean-policy performance. State and regional governments made the grade, but the federal government needs summer school for a lot of additional tutoring.
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Brittlestar Volcanica: the search for food
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-05-19 22:32:12
A city of tiny "brittlestar" starfish have been found on a huge undersea volcano, waving their "arms" in the water to catch passing by particles of food.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-05-19 22:32:12
A city of tiny "brittlestar" starfish have been found on a huge undersea volcano, waving their "arms" in the water to catch passing by particles of food.
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Bikini bounces back from Big Bomb
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-15 08:33:34
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-04-15 08:33:34
The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States was centered at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (South Pacific Ocean) on March 1, 1954. Fifty-four years later scientists find an abundance of underwater life—but, above ground, only uninhabitable land.
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Telstra massively upgrades US-Australia undersea cable link
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-04-08 06:52:02
Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2008-04-08 06:52:02
Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.
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Discarded chemical weapons causing ocean problems
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-31 12:58:50
An American-Japenese report has described the dumping of thousands of tons of chemical weapons and munitions into the sea. Unfortunately, the countries dumping such chemicals don’t always know where they are located.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-31 12:58:50
An American-Japenese report has described the dumping of thousands of tons of chemical weapons and munitions into the sea. Unfortunately, the countries dumping such chemicals don’t always know where they are located.
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Another Australian first: sex?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-03-24 10:27:55
Australia is the lucky country, but more than 500 million years ago, it was the sexy country, according to new research from the University of California in Riverside, following the discovery of a complex fossil in what is now South Australia.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-03-24 10:27:55
Australia is the lucky country, but more than 500 million years ago, it was the sexy country, according to new research from the University of California in Riverside, following the discovery of a complex fossil in what is now South Australia.
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NASA, NOAA, NSF to study gases important to climate change
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-02-21 19:39:22
It was announced on Thursday, February 21, 2008 that a team of U.S. scientists will study the Southern Ocean as part of a six-week research expedition called the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment (SOGEE), also called GasEx III.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-02-21 19:39:22
It was announced on Thursday, February 21, 2008 that a team of U.S. scientists will study the Southern Ocean as part of a six-week research expedition called the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment (SOGEE), also called GasEx III.
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