News articles tagged with 'ocean'
How much water does the ocean have?
— 15 Nov 2009 15:41 | EnvironmentThe calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers... — full story
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study
— 12 Nov 2009 08:37 | EnvironmentThe scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analysed isotope ratios... — full story
Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean
— 4 Nov 2009 13:42 | EnvironmentLarge-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time... — full story
Tags reveal white sharks have neighbourhoods in the north Pacific, say Stanford researchers
— 4 Nov 2009 13:33 | EnvironmentThe white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such... — full story
K-State engineers strive to make algae oil production more feasible
— 4 Nov 2009 12:41 | EnvironmentTwo Kansas State University engineers are assessing systematic production methods that could make the costs of algae oil production more reasonable, helping move the U.S. from fossil... — full story
Climate variability impacts the deep sea
— 3 Nov 2009 10:56 | EnvironmentDeep-sea ecosystems occupying 60% of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... — full story
SMOS satellite successfully launched
— 3 Nov 2009 10:53 | EnvironmentA rocket carrying the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite (2 November) blasted off successfully today at 02:50 Central European Time from... — full story
African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
— 3 Nov 2009 10:26 | Geology and palaeontologyIn 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the... — full story
Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic
— 3 Nov 2009 10:17 | EnvironmentScientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through... — full story
Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch
— 30 Oct 2009 10:27 | EnvironmentA new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia... — full story