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Scientist explains why freezing lakes sound like 'Star Wars' movies
Oct 16, 2014 (UPI)
Cory Williams, actor and YouTube personality, makes a living by filming videos of himself. Lately, those videos have involved exploring Alaska, and his most rec...
Microfossils reveal warm oceans had less oxygen
Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology-the study of tiny fossilized organisms-to...
Mineralization of sand particles boosts microbial water filtration
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Mineral coatings on sand particles actually encourage microbial activity in the rapid sand filters that are used to treat groundwater for drinking, according to...
Sri Lanka faces EU fish export ban
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union moved Tuesday to ban Sri Lanka from selling its seafood to the massive EU market in a bid to stop illegal fishing by the second biggest expor...
Australian beaches evacuated after suspected shark attack
Oct 12, 2014 (AFP)
Several beaches were closed in Western Australia Sunday after a suspected shark attack on an inflatable boat, officials said, just a week after a surfer had par...
Migrating animals' pee affects ocean chemistry
Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)
The largest migration on the planet is the movement of small animals from the surface of the open ocean, where they feed on plants under cover of darkness, to t...
Rivers recover natural conditions quickly following dam removal
Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)
A study of the removal of two dams in Oregon suggests that rivers can return surprisingly fast to a condition close to their natural state, both physically and ...
Zimbabwe signs $1.5 bn power deal with China's Sinohydro
Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)
Energy-starved Zimbabwe signed a $1.5 billion (1.2-billion-euro) deal with China's Sinohydro on Friday for a project to boost power generation at the Hwange coa...
Tidal pumps keep streets dry, but could they hurt water quality?
Oct 10, 2014 (UPI)
Miami Beach recently installed a series of high power pumps to keep king tides -- the highest of high tides, sometimes called spring tides -- from flooding city...
The unexamined diversity in the 'Coral Triangle'
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
Research on zoantharians, a group of animals related to corals and anemones, by researchers James Reimer of the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, Ang...
River flow by design
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
Last spring, the Colorado River reached its delta for the first time in 16 years, flowing into Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of California after wetting 70 miles of...
How plankton gets jet lagged
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
A hormone that governs sleep and jet lag in humans may also drive the mass migration of plankton in the ocean, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Labo...
Rating the Planet's Oceans
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
The most comprehensive assessment conducted by the Ocean Health Index rates the Earth's oceans at 67 out of 100 in overall health. In addition, for the first ti...
New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have created a new map of the world's seafloor, offering a more vivid picture of the structures that make up the deepest, least-explored parts of the...
Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)
Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source ...
Tracing our ancestors at the bottom of the sea
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
A specialist group of European researchers are studying the remains of prehistoric human settlements which are now submerged beneath our coastal seas. Some of t...
Coral Reef Winners and Losers
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
Contrary to the popular research-based assumption that the world's coral reefs are doomed, a new longitudinal study from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for ...
Asian carp DNA detected in Lake Michigan tributary
Oct 07, 2014 (UPI)
Recent water samples collected from the Kalamazoo River, about 20 miles upstream from where the river flows into Lake Michigan, tested positive for genetic mate...
Livermore scientists suggest ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
Using satellite observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore scientists have found that long-term ocean warming in the upper 700 meters ...
Fall in monsoon rains driven by rise in air pollution
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
Emissions produced by human activity have caused annual monsoon rainfall to decline over the past 50 years, a study suggests. In the second half of the 20th cen...
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