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Expedition discovers marine treasures
An underwater mountain that forms the world's third-largest atoll has some of the richest diversity of marine life ever found in the Caribbean, according to scientists who recently explored the area.   view more (2006-02-14)

CO2 emissions could violate EPA ocean-quality standards within decades
In a commentary in the September 25, 2007, issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a large team of scientists state that human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will alter ocean chemistry to the point where it will violate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Quality Criteria [1976] by mid-century if emissions are not dramatically... view more... (2007-09-20)

ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity
The world's biodiversity is vanishing at an unprecedented rate - around 100 species every day - due to factors such as land use change and pollution.   view more (2007-01-10)

Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles
Coastal populations and ecosystems are more likely to bounce back from extreme coastal disasters by protecting local environments and building on local knowledge, according to a report published in Science.   view more (2005-08-12)

Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.   view more (2007-11-07)

Searching out the small - and his massive mate
The male half of one of the strangest marine couples has been seen alive for the first time. The blanket octopus shows the greatest size difference between sexes of any large animal, with the male 100 times smaller and 40,000 times lighter than the female. University of Leeds researcher, Dr Tom Tregenza, saw the creature whilst diving off the... view more... (2003-01-31)

Was El Ni'得 unaffected by the Little Ice Age ?
An extremely intense El Ni'得 event in 1983 prompted an international surveillance programme, involving the deployment of moored or drift measurement buoys and observation satellites. This research effort is proving to be fruitful. The data obtained provide a key to understanding how the two components of the now-famous two-phase system El Ni'得... view more... (2002-03-27)

Giant squid killed by airguns in the Bay of Biscay? declining North Sea fish, cold-water corals and climate change.
This press release provides summaries of key papers being presented at the ICES Annual Science Conference in Vigo, Spain (22-25 September 2004).   view more (2004-09-21)

Arctic, antarctic melting may raise sea levels faster than expected
Ice sheets across both the Arctic and Antarctic could melt more quickly than expected this century, according to two studies that blend computer modeling with paleoclimate records.   view more (2006-03-24)

New Caledonia Lagoon: Sediment Transport Tracking And Prediction
Researchers have for several years now been using numerical modelling in the southwestern lagoon of New Caledonia to work out marine current circulation patterns and obtain detailed knowledge of its hydrodynamics. The lagoon has been subject to substantial sediment inputs generated by erosion and human activity. An IRD team has developed a... view more... (2003-09-24)

Freshwater supplies threatened in central Pacific
An international team from The Australian National University, Ecowise Environmental, the Government of the Republic of Kiribati, the French agency CIRAD and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission has been studying the impacts of natural and human-induced changes on groundwater in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati since 1996.   view more (2007-08-15)

1 year after Solomon Islands, scientists learn barrier to earthquakes weaker than expected
On the one year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands that killed 52 people and displaced more than 6,000, scientists are revising their understanding of the potential for similar giant earthquakes in other parts of the globe.   view more (2008-04-03)

Combining sun, sand and science in the Bahamas
It is well known that people from all over the world come to the Bahamas to enjoy the pristine waters, spectacular coral reefs and great fishing.   view more (2009-09-30)

Fishing benefits from marine reserves
The creation of marine reserves in which fishing is banned can benefit fisheries in adjacent areas, according to Dr Callum Roberts of the Environment Department at the University of York.   view more (2001-11-30)

Materials World - December 1999 Issue
3D Sound Systems Using Groundbreaking Piezoelectric Springs Digital speakers that can project three dimensional sound across a room are being developed using springs built from piezoelectric ceramics. Applying an electrical current to the material forces the spring to expand causing a vibration that produces a coherent sound image away from the... view more... (1999-11-30)

New theory -- universal intelligence on animals and plants
Here it is proposed that life in all its variety is full of sensation and creates a complicated web of interaction with its surroundings. Mammals, birds and even fish mourn for a lost love. Single-celled organisms carry out tasks that are surprisingly complicated. We can demonstrate sensitivity in microscopic organisms, while plants emerge as... view more... (1999-03-25)

DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H. psychedelica
"Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a species of fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren. So says University of Washington's Ted Pietsch, who is the first to describe the new species in the scientific literature and thus the one to select the name.   view more (2009-02-25)

Decades of accumulated change court ecosystem catastrophe
Subjected to decades of gradual change by humans, many of the world’s natural ecosystems – from coral reefs and tropical forests to northern lakes and forests – appear susceptible to sudden catastrophic ecological change, an international consortium of scientists reports Thursday October 11 in the journal Nature. “Models... view more... (2001-10-08)

Researchers give new hybrid vehicle its first test drive in the ocean
Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.) have successfully flown the first environmentally powered robotic vehicle through the ocean. The new robotic "glider" harvests heat energy from the ocean to propel itself across... view more... (2008-02-11)

Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes
The island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has shaken many times with powerful earthquakes since the one that wrought the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Now, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences are harnessing information from these and earlier quakes to determine where the next ones will... view more... (2008-05-28)
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