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05 2014

May 20, 2014

New insight may help predict volcanic eruption behavior
From ScienceDaily
　　A new discovery in the study of how lava dome volcanoes erupt may help in the development of methods to predict how a volcanic eruption will behave, say scientists at the ...
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05 2014

May 20, 2014

The Red Sea: An ocean like all others, after all
From ScienceDaily
　　The Red Sea has turned out to be an ideal study object for marine geologists. There they can observe the formation of an ocean in its early phase. However, the Red Sea see...
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05 2014

May 20, 2014

NASA Uses GPS to Find Sierra Water Weight
From NASA website
　　For the first time, NASA scientists have used GPS to find the total weight of winter snowpack and soil moisture in California’s Sierra Nevada. The new results complement ...
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05 2014

May 20, 2014

Uncontrollable ice-melt? Uncorking East Antarctica could yield unstoppable sea-level rise, simulations show
The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to co...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Undersea warfare: Viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal vents
More than a mile beneath the ocean's surface, as dark clouds of mineral-rich water billow from seafloor hot springs called hydrothermal vents, unseen armies of viruses and bacteria wage war.
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Researchers at the UPC and the UB propose a scientific name for rapid and sudden increases in temperature
In an article published in the scientific journal 'Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences', the researchers Jordi Mazon and David Pino of the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and A...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Sustainable barnacle-repelling paint could help the shipping industry and the environment
From ACS News Service Weekly PressPac
　　Barnacles might seem like a given part of a seasoned ship’s hull, but they’re literally quite a drag and cause a ship to burn more fuel. To prevent t...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Competition for ecological niches limits the formation of new species
From the University of Chicago website
　　The rate at which new species evolve is limited by competition for ecological niches, report scientists from the University of Chicago in Nature on Ap...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Climate change study reveals unappreciated impacts on biodiversity
Climate change
　　Shrinking ice sheets and melting ice caps are well known consequences of climate change. But a new study reveals that impacts on biodiversity will be just as severe in other ...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

News Story - Earth's last warm phase exposed
From British Antarctic Survey
　　Analysis of data collected from ice cores and marine sediment cores in both polar regions has given scientists a clearer picture of how the Earth’s climate ch...