Archive for ‘ocean’
Mysterious creatures found in Antarctica
February 19th, 2008
Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.
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From Ocean Depths, Strange Sightings
February 19th, 2008
Scientists collecting specimens off Antarctica find strange creatures, including organisms looking like slender glass and giant spiders living deep in the ocean.
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Southern Ocean rise due to warming, not ice melts
February 17th, 2008
Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research programme said.
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La Nina Pacific cooling may last to mid-year -U.N.
February 11th, 2008
A sea-surface cooling in the Pacific, which may have contributed to strong hurricanes in the United States and a freeze-up in China, could last at least until mid-year, the U.N. weather body WMO said on Monday.
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Researchers looking at coral threats
January 24th, 2008
Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a “campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them,” Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.
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World warming despite cool Pacific, Baghdad snow
January 11th, 2008
Climate change is still nudging up temperatures in the long term even though the warmest year was back in 1998 and 2008 has begun with unusual weather such as a cool Pacific and Baghdad’s first snow in memory, experts said.
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Deep sea probe to track Australia climate change
January 10th, 2008
Australian and U.S. scientists will send an unmanned submersible 2.5 kms (1.5 miles) deep into the ocean off Australia next week to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths.
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Rising sea level should be issue of concern at Bali: UN panel chief
November 26th, 2007
Rising sea levels due to global warming and defining what is a dangerous degree of climate change should be among critical issues for debate at next month’s climate conference in Bali, RK Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations panel on climate change, said Monday.
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Ship Sinking in Antarctic Waters
November 23rd, 2007
More than 150 passengers and crew took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters on Friday after their cruise ship hit an object and began taking on water through a hole in the hull, Britain’s Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported.
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Iron is a tonic for climate-saving plankton
November 19th, 2007
From the deck of the research ship Weatherbird II, a California company hopes to prove a controversial theory that putting iron dust in the ocean can produce enough plankton to help save the Earth.
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Tides Could Make Oil Spill Worse
November 19th, 2007
An environmental report by state and federal officials says there’s a ’slight chance’ that oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay earlier this month could reach a pristine wilderness coastline more than 40 miles away.
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Island nations plan for rising seas, mass migration
November 14th, 2007
Countries usually evacuate their citizens because of war or a sudden and catastrophic natural disaster. For the Pacific island state of Kiribati, the climate change disaster facing the nation is no less dramatic but on a slower time scale and means preparing its 100,000 inhabitants for lives in nations less vulnerable to wild weather and rising seas.
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Impact of Black Sea oil spill to last decades
November 13th, 2007
Environmentalists in Russia and Ukraine predict that the ecological impact of a recent oil spill in the Black Sea will last decades, the Interfax news agency reported. Some 2,000 tons of heating oil spilled into the Kerch Strait dividing the two former Soviet republics on Sunday, after a tanker sank in severe weather.
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Criminal Probe Underway in San Fran Oil Spill
November 12th, 2007
A criminal probe is underway in the cargo ship crash that caused a massive oil leak in the San Francisco Bay. The NTSB has also started an investigation into the accident.
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Bay Spill ‘Should Never Have Happened’
November 11th, 2007
California officials say the recovery begins in earnest now in the San Francisco Bay. One Coast Guard official says speed may have been a factor in the ship crash that spilled nearly 60 thousand gallons of fuel into the bay.
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