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Mud manifests history of clear water in murky Minnesota duck depot Lake Christina
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
During peak migration days in the early 1900s, tens of thousands of canvasback ducks could be seen floating and diving on Minnesota's Lake Christina. Since midc...
TARA OCEANS completes 60 000-mile journey to map marine biodiversity
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
The two-and-a-half-year TARA OCEANS expedition finishes on 31 March when the ship and crew reach Lorient, France. The arrival completes a journey of 60 000 mile...
Chinese fisherman killed in Palau shooting
Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)
Palau police shot dead a Chinese fisherman and three men in a police spotter plane were feared killed in a dramatic confrontation off the Pacific island, offici...
Nepal approves hydropower project
Apr 02, 2012 (UPI)
The government of Nepal has given the green light for China Three Gorges Corp.'s $1.6 billion hydropower project on the West Seti River. "We have decided that t...
Oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life in deep sediments
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage...
Marshall Islanders 'nomads' in own country: UN
Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)
More than 50 years after the United States ended nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, test-affected islanders "feel like nomads in their own country", a UN ...
New ORNL tool developed to assess global freshwater stress
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
A new method to make better use of vast amounts of data related to global geography, population and climate may help determine the relative importance of popula...
UN hits water target, but 2 billion people still drinking unsafe water
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
Recent widespread news coverage heralded the success of a United Nations' goal of greatly improving access to safe drinking water around the world. But while ma...
Creatures from the deep surface in NY exhibit
Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)
They have their own lights, teeth, and weird names like vampire squid, stoplight loosejaws, and bristlemouth -- meet the weird denizens of the deep surfacing fo...
Sediment sleuthing
Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Delaware oceanographer has stumbled upon an unusual aid for studying local waterways: radioactive iodine. Trace amounts of the contaminant, whic...
VIMS professor helps lead international study of ocean value
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is a co-editor of "Valuing the Ocean" a major new study by an international team of scientists...
China plans to curb capital's water usage
Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in Beijing plan to pass a rule this year aimed at curbing water usage by the capital's many golf courses and ski resorts, an official said Monday, a...
Basketball-sized eyes help squids play defense
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
Giant and colossal squids have eyes as big as basketballs, and a Duke scientist thinks he knows why. "They're most likely using their huge eyes to spot and esca...
Chemical pollution in Europe's Seas
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
New Marine Board-ESF position paper sheds light on the gaps in our efforts to monitor and regulate chemical pollution in Europe's seas According to a recent pol...
'Titanic' director dives to Earth's deepest point
Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)
"Titanic" director James Cameron returned to the surface Monday after a solo submarine dive to the deepest point in the world's oceans that was hailed as the ul...
'Titanic' director returns from dive to Mariana Trench
Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)
"Titanic" director James Cameron has safely returned to the ocean surface after a solo submarine dive to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, expedition organ...
Tonga readies for king's state funeral
Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)
The Pacific island of Tonga was Friday preparing to bid farewell its late King George Tupou V, rehearsing the funeral procession and declaring two public holida...
New study lowers estimate of ancient sea-level rise
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
The seas are creeping higher as the planet warms. But how high will they go? Projections for the year 2100 range from inches to several feet, or more. The sub-t...
Global sea level likely to rise as much as 70 feet for future generations
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
Even if humankind manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F), as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends, future generation...
New dataset provides 40 year record of CO2 accumulation in the surface ocean
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
The most comprehensive dataset of surface water carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements for the world's oceans and coastal seas is launched last week by an internatio...
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