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14 hrs ago | ETaiwanNews.com

Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC

When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, New York, Flood, Science, Boat Disaster

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Global Post

Common ground, out at sea

The sharks, sea turtles and other miscellaneous underwater creatures that roam the Gulf of Mexico could care less about the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, or the island's one-party communist state.

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Related Topix: Science

Fri Nov 06, 2009

EurekAlert!

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

The American icebreaker RV/IB Nathanial B. Palmer is shown off the South Shetland Islands.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Shetland Islands County, Scotland, United Kingdom, Science

The Post Chronicle

Global Warning Could Affect The Oceans

British and U.S. scientists are warning deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Science, Science / Technology

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Capital City Weekly

Pollutants, Pebble preparation threaten fish populations

Fish and shellfish will soon get more protection from mercury and other toxins in the atmosphere that end up in US waters.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chemistry, Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Wed Nov 04, 2009

EurekAlert!

Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean

Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led by Dr Sinhue Torres-Valdes of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

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Related Topix: Science

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The London News.Net

Casablanca Seamount exploration reveals underwater volcano teeming with life

London, November 3 : In a new exploration mission of the Casablanca Seamount, scientists have found an underwater volcano teeming with life.

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Related Topix: Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Science

Newkerala.com

Ram Setu: SC grants 4-week to Centre to clarify its stand

New Delhi, Nov 3: The Supreme Court today granted four-week time to the Union Government to clarify its stand on the issue of an alternate route to save the Ram Setu from being destroyed.

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Related Topix: Science, Manmohan Singh

News Press

Experts at FSU offshore drilling symposium say risk is low

Tanker collisions and coastal storage facilities susceptible to hurricane storm surges are more threatening than drilling rigs and pipelines, the experts said.

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Related Topix: Florida State University, Science, Texas A&M University, Cape Coral, FL, Fort Myers Metro

Science Daily

SMOS Satellite Successfully Launched: First-ever Satellite To Attempt ...

Professor Meric Srokosz of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, a co-investigator on the mission, has been involved in the project since its inception, having proposed the mission with colleagues in France and Spain back in 1998.

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Related Topix: Science, Astronomy

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Oherald

Convective systems cause of abrupt rains

Convective systems cause of abrupt rains HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, OCT 29 Researchers have attributed the unusual monsoon pattern and decreased rainfall to the lesser low pressure system in the north west Pacific ocean.

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Related Topix: Weather, Science

Sun Nov 01, 2009

KCBY-TV Coos Bay

Deadly foam kills seabirds, puzzles scientists

Flight crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, Calif., and specialists from the International Bird Rescue Research Center load pallets full of birdcages onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft, Monday, Oct.

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Related Topix: US Coast Guard, US Military, US News, Washington, Science

Sat Oct 31, 2009

GordonMoyes.com

New South Wales coast vulnerable to tsunami

As Samoa recovers from a devastating tsunami and Indonesia recovers from its horrendous earthquake, Australia's vulnerability to tsunamis is now the subject of some concern.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Earthquake, Science, Geology

Fri Oct 30, 2009

R & D

HyBIS explores the Casablanca seamount

In October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton made ten dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometre high seamount located some 300 miles west of Morocco.

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Related Topix: Science, Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters

Thu Oct 29, 2009

EurekAlert!

Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch

A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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Related Topix: Science

KOMO News

Deadly foam kills seabirds, puzzles scientists

Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don't know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast.

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Related Topix: Cannon Beach, OR, Science

Wed Oct 28, 2009

The Daily Echo

Solent's oyster industry faces disaster

THE Solent's once thriving oyster industry is on the verge of collapse, fishermen and scientists have warned.

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Related Topix: Hampshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Isle of Wight County, England, Aquaculture, Science

Science Daily

Underwater Exploration: Autosub6000 Dives To Depth Of 3.5 Miles

Autosub6000 was working in regions of the Iberian Abyssal Plain in the North Atlantic deeper than 5600 metres and also around the steep and rugged terrain of the Casablanca Seamount, between Madeira and Morocco.

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Related Topix: Science

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Channel Canada

a Real-Life Crime Investigation Seeks To Unlock the Mystery of the Floating Feet on CBC News Network

In May 2008, something bizarre washed ashore off the British Columbian coast-one right foot, still in its running shoe.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, 9, Science, World News, Prince Charles

PhysOrg Weblog

Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

At the end of experiments larvae of the hard clam, bay scallop, and Eastern oyster that were raised in seawater with high carbon dioxide concentration were smaller and later to develop than larvae raised in seawater with carbon dioxide concentration matching current ocean levels Credit: Stephanie Talmage Relatively minor increases in ocean acidity ...

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