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Science News
July 4, 2009
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Book Review: Flotsametrics And The Floating World By Curtis Ebbesmeyer And Eric Scigliano Today, scientists recognize flotsam as a tremendous source of scientific data. |
Scientific American
July 2008
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NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Christina Reed |
The mighty, tiny larvae Understanding that marine larvae play a more active role in the ocean processes and have perhaps an evolutionary history of staying close to home provides impetus for shoreline communities to protect local habitats. |
Chemistry World
August 19, 2010
Sarah Houlton |
Plastic oceans Plastic waste is a problem in the oceans, but it's not clear where it is - or how much there is. |
Popular Mechanics
August 12, 2008
Laurie J. Schmidt |
Sensor-Laden Super Seals Dive Deep for New Global Warming Data A behemoth marine mammal whose diving skills would put an Olympic athlete to shame has become a surprise player in climate-change studies |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Decades of constant oceanic currents have resulted in a huge area of the Pacific that has become a veritable black hole of human-produced waste. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Is Ocean Circulation Slowing Down? New measurements of temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic indicate that changes are occurring in this segment of the ocean's circulation that could eventually affect Earth's climate. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Salting a Stagnant Ocean In its Third Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged the potential sudden collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic, which warms Europe to its current habitable climate, as a significant source of concern. |
U.S. CPSC
September 4, 2007 |
Fisher-Price Recalls Bongo Band Toys Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paints on the toys contain excessive levels of lead, which violates the federal law prohibiting lead paint on children's toys. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Geotimes
November 2007
Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Lucas Laursen |
Seismic "Noise"--Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing A ring of warm, salty water in the Atlantic was recently imaged with seismic survey data taken 15 years ago |
