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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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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...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Deep origins to the behavior of Hawaiian volcanoes
From ScienceDaily
　　Kīlauea volcano, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, typically has effusive eruptions, wherein magma flows to create ropy pāhoehoe lava, for example. However, Kīlauea less fr...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Magnitude of maximum earthquake scales with maturity of fault
From ScienceDaily
　　The oldest sections of transform faults, such as the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) and the San Andreas Fault, produce the largest earthquakes, putting important limits...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

European seafloor survey reveals depth of marine litter problem
A major new survey of the seafloor has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter.
　　The litter was found thr...
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05 2014

May 12, 2014

Network for tracking earthquakes exposes glacier activity: Accidental find offers big potential for research on Alaska's glaciers
Alaska's seismic network records thousands of quakes produced by glaciers, capturing valuable data that scientists could use to better understand their behavior, but instead their seismic signa...