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• Rift at Afar, Ethiopia Will Become an Ocean

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  In 2005, a 35-mile-long rift broke open in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the ...
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• Antarctic Eye Candy (video)

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 637
  What better way to end/start your week than an eye-popping video of a seal carcass being devoured by a menagerie of starfish and ten-foot long carnivorous worms? Youve got to love the camerawork, especially the stop-motion bits, which makes this ...
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• Programming Note — URI On ‘60 Minutes’

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 439
  Finally, Rhode Island will get some national exposure for something really awesome. Tonight on 60 Minutes Lara Logan interviews Dr. Bob Ballard of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography. She joined a recent expedition last September when his crew discovered a new site, a 1400-year-old Byzantine wreck on the floor ...
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• Climate Action Urged Amid Controversy - WSJ.com

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 428
  A new report by some of the UNIPCC scientists urge action on climate change. They state the climate behavior currently seen is at the extreme end of the forecasts in the UNIPCC report from 2007. One of these scientists is among those whose emails were released in the climategate controversy. They say the release of ...
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• Oceans Absorbing Carbon Dioxide More Slowly, Scientist Finds

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) — The worlds oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO 2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change, ...
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• Sponges Recycle Carbon To Give Life To Coral Reefs

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2009) — Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert. So how do reefs sustain their thriving populations? Marine biologist Fleur Van Duyl from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is fascinated by the energy budgets ...
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• 17650 Species that have never seen sunlight

  
  ZME Science — Authority: 521
  The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance of marine species, more specifically deep sea species that live below the point where sunlight can penetrate the water, creatures that live more than 5 km below sea level, in a cold ...
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• Deep-Sea World Beyond Sunlight: Explorers Census 17,650 Ocean Species on Edge of Black Abyss

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  he nine known species of rare, primitive finned octopods are commonly called “Dumbos” because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant.Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have ...
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• Climate Modeling May Have Missed Something: Aquatic Creatures Mix Ocean Water by Swimming

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) — Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, they do not generally take into account the mixing ...
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• Deep-Sea World Beyond Sunlight: Explorers Census 17,650 Ocean Species on Edge of Black Abyss

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  The nine known species of rare, primitive finned octopods are commonly called "Dumbos" because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant. One of the deep seas largest animals, this specimen was collected at about 3500 meters on a 2009 Census of Marine Life MAR-ECO cruise to ...
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• Sea Stars Bulk Up to Beat the Heat

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) are voracious predators in the intertidal zone. Feeding on mussels and other mollusks, they limit the range of these species. (Credit: Photo: Nancy Sefton / From NOAA/National Marine Sanctuary Web Site) ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) — A new study finds that a species of sea ...
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• Empty seats greet president at Goa civic reception

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Panaji, Nov 23 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil’s civic reception hosted by the state government and local self government bodies on Monday drew a lukewarm response, with a large number of empty seats in the 500-odd seater auditorium of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).While advertisements released in all ...
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• Seafloor Mining and Environmental Impact

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has a new article that provides a brief overview of seafloor minerals, seafloor mining, who regulates seafloor mining and how environmental impact might be limited during mineral extraction. They also have two Flash presentations on seafloor mineral deposits and seafloor mining.
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• Prospecting for Antarctic Phytoplankton

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has an audio slideshow that explains the basics of Antarctic phytoplankton and travels with scientists who explore their role in the Antarctic environment.
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• Slowing Rate of Carbon Dioxide Absorption by the Ocean

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  “The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions—a finding with potentially wide ...
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• Scientists find “predator” corals that eat jellyfish

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 22 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have discovered the only known “predator” corals to eat adult jellyfish.According to a report in National Geographic News, the study, led by scientists from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University, witnessed a mushroom coral ingesting a ...
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• El Niño Resurgence

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  “El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Recent measurements of sea level height from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission satellite showed that a strong wave of warm water, known as a Kelvin wave, had spread from the western to the central and eastern Pacific. This warm wave appears as the large area of ...
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• Biodegradable Plastic from Corn

  
  Geology News — Authority: 513
  Biodegradable plastic made from corn has been around for years. New production methods may help these “bioplastic” products to become more mainstream.
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• Carbon Dioxide: sources outpacing sinks

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 637
  Galloping increases in human fossil fuel emissions now appear to be outrunning the ability of the worlds oceans to absorb them. The first year-by-year accounting of the oceans role as a carbon sink shows that, even as they soak up ...
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• Oceans’ Uptake of Human-Made Carbon May Be Slowing

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Carbon released by fossil fuel burning (black) continues to accumulate in the air (red), oceans (blue), and land (green). The oceans take up roughly a quarter of manmade CO2, but evidence suggests they are now taking up a smaller proportion. (Credit: Samar Khatiwala, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) ScienceDaily ...
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