Tag - oceans

 
 

OCEANS

Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 2, 2014
Melting Arctic ice brings hope to Russian city
The city of Nadym, in the extreme north of Siberia, is one of the Earth's least hospitable places, shrouded in darkness for half of the year, with temperatures plunging below minus 30 Celsius and the nearby Kara Sea semipermanently frozen.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 9, 2014
Elephant shark has 'barely evolved' in millions of years
A prehistoric fish found off New Zealand and southern Australia evolves even slower than the coelacanth, a famous "living fossil" whose DNA has barely changed over hundreds of millions of years, scientists said Wednesday.
WORLD
Dec 10, 2013
Drinking water project pumps up Dead Sea
The Dead Sea has been rapidly disappearing for the past 50 years, one of the world's natural wonders careening toward ecological collapse.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 23, 2013
Ocean acidification may double by 2100: study
Ocean acidity is likely to more than double by 2100 because of fossil-fuel pollution, putting fisheries at risk and diminishing the capacity of the seas to absorb carbon-dioxide emissions, a study showed.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 26, 2013
'Scary as hell' ocean-research storm breaks
'The long-held barriers between nature and culture are breaking down. It's no longer us against 'nature.' Instead, it's we who decide what nature is and what it will be.'
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2013
Report links sonar to whale stranding
The mysterious stranding of about 100 melon-headed whales in a shallow Madagascar lagoon in 2008 set off a rapid international response — a few of the 3-4-meter-long marine mammals were rescued, necropsies conducted, a review panel formed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 28, 2013
Dolphin deaths, linked to virus, worst in years
Marine scientists said Tuesday that a die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic coast is the largest in a quarter-century and is almost certainly from the same cause as a 1987-88 outbreak: cetacean morbillivirus, which is spreading throughout the population.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Aug 28, 2013
Air gun noise sparks alarm in war over offshore drilling
The use of "seismic air guns" to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeast coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 21, 2013
Humans '95% likely' behind warming
It is all but certain that human activity has caused a steady increase in global temperatures over the past 60 years, leading to warmer oceans and an acceleration in rising sea levels, according to the most recent climate change report by an international U.N. panel of scientists.
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 31, 2013
Shark attacks on humans are rare but not unheard of
With beach season in full swing, the question inevitably arises: What are the chances of getting attacked by a shark?
WORLD
Jun 18, 2013
U.S. shad catch limited in bid to restore stocks
If things were this bad in the late 1770s, George Washington's starving Continental Army might never have made it out of Valley Forge.
WORLD
May 16, 2013
Fish moving to cooler waters for decades: study
Research shows that fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth's poles for more than three decades.

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