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Tenerife Geology Discovery Is Among 'World's Best': Holiday Island Landscape Reveals Explosive Past
October 3, 2011 — Volcanologists have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of ... > full story -
Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles
September 28, 2011 — Marine turtles worldwide are vulnerable and endangered, but their long lives and broad distribution make it difficult for scientists to accurately determine the threat level to different populations ... > full story -
Location Matters: For Invasive Aquatic Species, It's Better to Start Upstream
September 26, 2011 — Scientists have studied populations of European green crab, Carcinus maenas. The species was introduced to the East Coast of North America twice, at both the upper and lower edges of its range. Their ... > full story -
NASA's UARS Satellite Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere
September 24, 2011 — NASA's decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years and nine days after its launch on a ... > full story -
Aquarius Yields NASA's First Global Map of Ocean Salinity
September 22, 2011 — NASA's new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard ... > full story -
Model Provides Successful Seasonal Forecast for the Fate of Arctic Sea Ice
September 22, 2011 — Relatively accurate predictions for summer sea ice extent in the Arctic can be made the previous autumn, but forecasting more than five years into the future requires understanding of the impact of ... > full story -
Nitrate Levels Rising in Northwestern Pacific Ocean
September 22, 2011 — Changes in the ratio of nitrate to phosphorus in the oceans off the coasts of Korea and Japan caused by atmospheric and riverine pollutants may influence the makeup of marine plants and influence ... > full story -
El Niño and the Tropical Eastern Pacific Annual Cycle Run to the Same Beat
September 22, 2011 — The interaction between El Niño events and the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature in the eastern equatorial Pacific can be described through a nonlinear phase synchronization mechanism, ... > full story -
Optimum Tax on Foreign Fishing in Africa Protects Stocks and Domestic Fishing
September 21, 2011 — People living in coastal areas in Africa can rarely utilize their entire fishing zones as their simple boats only allow them to fish near the coast. The United Nations Conference on the Law of the ... > full story -
Springs of Life in the Dead Sea: Dense and Diverse Microbial Communities in and Around Fresh Water Springs
September 21, 2011 — The deepest point on the surface of Earth is the Dead Sea in Israel. Now a joint Israeli-German team of scientists found several systems of freshwater springs on the Dead Sea floor. Their presence ... > full storyMore: -
Air Quality Has Continued to Improve in Finnish Lapland
September 21, 2011 — Long-term observations indicate a positive trend in the quality of air in Lapland during the past 10-20 years. This favorable trend may be threatened by increased marine transport emissions from the ... > full story -
50-Million-Year-Old Clam Shells Provide Indications of Future of El Nino Phenomenon
September 19, 2011 — Earth warming will presumably not lead to a permanent El Nino state in the South Pacific Ocean. This is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers after it investigated ... > full story
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