News articles tagged with 'sea'
Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
— 18 Nov 2009 11:10 | BiologyA new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high... — full story
Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
— 17 Nov 2009 16:59 | BiologyRecording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society... — full story
Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever
— 15 Nov 2009 14:51 | EnvironmentSatellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a... — full story
Neglected UK seas catch break with new legislation
— 13 Nov 2009 14:33 | EnvironmentThe UK Government has today introduced new legislation that will make the region's neglected seas much healthier, reversing years of overfishing and habitat loss... — full story
Tackling new Arctic challenges from space
— 6 Nov 2009 12:18 | EnvironmentInternational scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing... — 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
HyBIS explores the Casablanca seamount
— 31 Oct 2009 14:47 | EnvironmentIn October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) made ten dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometre... — full story
North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years
— 29 Oct 2009 11:18 | EnvironmentAn international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found... — full story
Rapid ice loss found in survey supports trend to summer ice free Arctic within decade
— 15 Oct 2009 09:57 | EnvironmentNew data, released today by the Catlin Arctic Survey and WWF, provides further evidence of thinning Arctic Ocean sea ice, supporting the emerging thinking that the Ocean will be largely... — full story
Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend
— 7 Oct 2009 14:11 | EnvironmentDespite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains... — full story