Low oxygen likely made 'Great Dying' worse, greatly delayed recovery
...ontinent called Pangea, and most of the land above sea level became uninhabitable because low oxygen made...when the oxygen level hit 16 percent, breathing at sea level would have been like trying to breathe at the summit of a 9,200-foot mountain today. By the ea...To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...ajority but not all travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched. There... individuals in some populations do not migrate to sea at all," he says. "These fish sacrifice the growing opportunities at sea for the relative safety of ...Elephant seal pups suffer from ocean warming
...fered against ocean temperature changes than other sea mammals. A study by Dr Burney Le Boeuf and Dr David Crocker from the University of California in Santa Cruz, shows that as waters get warmer the average weight of an elephant seal pup decreases. Weaning weights are a direct indicator of food availab...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
... and killing of marine mammals, juvenile fish, and sea turtles that become ensnared by fishing nets and l...lity for fishermen, and preserve the bounty of the sea for future generations. Today, I'm happy to announce our competition reeled in three promising innov...Whale bones and farm soil: Sequencing biodiversity
...genome of one organism, why not sequence a drop of sea water, a gram of farm soil or even a sunken whale skeleton? Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and their US collaborators have done just that, and the result is a new appreciation for the rich diversity of li...Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples
...ial are over represented in soil and absent in the sea water, while in sea water, genes involved in the passage of sodium, a major chemical component of salt water, were parti...NASA study finds snow melt causes large ocean plant blooms
...he land and ocean during summer. As a consequence, sea surfacewinds over the Arabian Sea have strengthened leading to more intenseupwelling and more widespread blooms of phytoplankton along the coastsof Somalia, Yemen and Oman. According to Goes, while large blooms of phytoplankton can enhancefisheries, ...A decade after launch, ERS-2's mission continues
...aking the temperature of cloud tops as well as the sea surface the best means of assessing the long-term...t environmental satellite has also been monitoring sea surface temperature and atmospheric ozone as well as altimetry and radar observations. However the ...Glaciers from Antarctic peninsula in widespread retreat, Science study says
...ng their descent to the ocean and that the rate of sea level rise could be affected if ice shelves on the...ould contribute to future increases in the rate of sea level rise. The forthcoming maps highlighting the patterns of glacial change should be of interest t...ESA at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
...ng precise shifts in land cover, ice field extent, sea surface height and even the composition of the atmosphere. In the shorter-term, satellites yielded rapid mapping of the December 2004 Sumatran tsunami, swiftly bringing home the full scope of the disaster. And ESA and the European Union's Global Mon...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
...m caught juvenile swordfish and even a leatherback sea turtle that the team successfully released, an indication that the productive hotspots, which attract tunas, also attract other pelagic species. "There are two ways to save the Atlantic bluefin tuna stock--protect them in their breeding grounds and i...Environmental technologies earn award for PNNL
... to accommodate vessels ranging from tall ships to sea kayaks, plus a future educational center. The dock also received the international Waterfront Center's 2004 Urban Waterfront Projects Award for environmental protection and enhancement. The jury chair called the dock "a $1.5-million experiment - a re...Risk assessments urged for fish escaping from net-pen aquaculture
...c threadfin, mutton snapper, bluefin tuna, turbot, sea bass, and sea bream. The study is described in detail in the May 2005 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of...Little microbe inside sea squirt makes big splash
...ron didemnii, which lives symbiotically inside the sea squirt, actually produces the desired patellamides...aboratory once the bacterium was isolated from the sea squirt. Because samples of Prochloron were easily contaminated with remnants of life inside its anim...Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
... - both have the same dilemma: They are awash in a sea of data. To make sense of the human genome, for example, Schwartz and the small army of scientists engaged in one of biology's grandest projects must sort through 20,000-25,000 genes and the hundreds of millions of base pairs - long, contiguous seque...Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists
...nly caused by the backwash waves returning to the sea that sucked back debris from the shore such as tre...ir developments a little to minimise the impact on sea life. Communities that are rebuilding hotels should take advantage of reconstruction funds to make ...Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils
... Present-day examples of such relationships in the sea are abundant. Now, there is an example from ancient ocean life. At a site where abundant algae lived in a shallow sub-tidal environment about 600 million years ago, Yuan and Xiao found three specimens that have evidence of two partners in a familiar ...Plunge into warmer waters this summer with ESA's Mediterranean heat map
... ritual: a swift hand or foot in the surf to check sea temperature. Or there is the modern approach a fl...iterranean on a daily basis. An updated map of the sea surface temperature (SST) of the world's largest inland sea is generated every day as part of ESA's ......ogd has investigated the possibilities for rearing sea sponges in Indonesia. Some of these sponges contai...rprisingly few Indonesian species are suitable for sea rearing. Sea rearing Sedentary marine invertebrates such as sponges, are an important source for...... west side of the Mountaineer Range. It enters the sea at Lady Newnes Bay, where it forms a floating ice ...ce blocked ocean currents and led to a build-up of sea ice that decimated local penguin colonies, deprived of open waters for feeding. During the spring of...