Germany, Canada to conduct joint ocean research
August 18th, 2012 - 4:53 am ICT by IANS
Berlin, Aug 18 (IANS) Germany and Canada will jointly conduct marine research.The Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel announced Friday that both sides have agreed on the joint cooperation. ... Read more...
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Antarctic ice shelf faces threat from warm waters
May 10th, 2012 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, May 10 (IANS) Scientists have punched holes in Antarctic's viability by refuting the prevalent assumption that its Weddell Sea ice shelves would remain impervious to global warming due to ... Read more...
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Bits of plastic endangering sea creatures
April 18th, 2012 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, April 18 (IANS) The seas are littered with large quantities of microplastic particles -- plastics in small bits and pieces -- endangering the lives of marine creatures, says a ... Read more...
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CO2 hidden in ocean during Ice Age
March 30th, 2012 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, March 30 (IANS) Much of the CO2 was hidden in the ocean, which explains its low atmosphere concentration during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, researchers say.Climate researchers ... Read more...
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Global warming forces seals deeper into ocean
February 13th, 2012 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 13 (IANS) Global warming is forcing southern elephant seals to dive deeper into the ocean for food.Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research with ... Read more...
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Climate change pushing back Arctic coastline
April 18th, 2011 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 18 (IANS) Climate change and increased erosion are pushing back the Arctic coastline by half a metre every year.This implies substantial changes for Arctic ecosystems near the coast ... Read more...
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How did higher life on Earth evolve?
June 4th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 4 (ANI): An international research team has for the first time decoded the complete genome of a brown alga, opening a new door to the understanding the evolution of two ... Read more...
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Make more efforts to tackle rising ocean acidity, say European scientists
May 20th, 2010 - 6:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 20 (ANI): European scientists are calling for more efforts in tackling rising ocean acidity.The 'Impacts of Ocean Acidification' science policy briefing presented by the European Science Foundation on May 20 ... Read more...
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Here’s how ice flows
May 8th, 2010 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have presented first results of a new measurement method in Antarctica.Dr. Olaf Eisen from the German Alfred Wegener Institute has presented results ... Read more...
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Drilled ice core in Greenland may contain climate history of past 38,000 years
August 25th, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 25 (ANI): A team of scientists has drilled an ice core of altogether 1757.87 m length on the Greenland inland ice within 110 days, which is expected to contain data ... Read more...
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Indian scientists learn from failed attempt to fertilise ocean
May 14th, 2009 - 9:46 am ICT by IANS
By K.S. Jayaraman
Bangalore, May 14 (IANS) Indian scientists recently carried out a controversial experiment in the ocean near Antarctica to get carbon dioxide captured from the air and stored in the sea. ... Read more...
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Antarctica’s ice cover was much larger 10,000 years ago than it is today
May 6th, 2009 - 2:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 6 (ANI): New Antarctic seabed sonar images have revealed that the extent of ice covering the continent of Antarctica at the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ... Read more...
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Indian scientists conduct anti-warming experiment in Antarctic Ocean
January 28th, 2009 - 8:22 am ICT by IANS
Berlin, Jan 28 (DPA) Indian and German scientists began strewing iron powder on hundreds of square kilometres of the Antarctic ocean in a momentous experiment that may yield a solution to the ... Read more...
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Climate change favors creatures with short lifespans
November 1st, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 1 (ANI): A new research has determined that climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse ... Read more...
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Computer simulations reveal three green Sahara episodes over 120,000 years
October 1st, 2008 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
Berlin, October 1 (ANI): New North African climate reconstructions have revealed three green Sahara episodes during which the present-day Sahara Desert was almost completely covered with extensive grasslands, lakes and ponds ... Read more...
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Giant clams fed first modern humans moving out of Africa
August 29th, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 29 (ANI): A study on a newly discovered living species of giant clam called Tridacna costata suggests that modern humans dispersal out of Africa into the Red Sea and ... Read more...
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Even seaweeds can get sunburned
August 23rd, 2008 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 23 (ANI): A new research by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute on Spitsbergen in Norway has determined that even marine organisms like seaweeds can get sunburned.
The research says ... Read more...
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Even seaweeds are not protected from sunburn
August 23rd, 2008 - 12:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 23 (IANS) Like most humans, many plants also react sensitively to an increased dose of ultraviolet radiation, even though they are dependent on sunlight. With the help of pigments absorbing ... Read more...
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Arctic ice continues to thin alarmingly
August 4th, 2008 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 4 (ANI): Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have analyzed that Arctic ice is continuing to thin down to alarming levels.According to ... Read more...
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Ice cover in Arctic Ocean in 2008 will lie below that of 2005
July 10th, 2008 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Based on a model study, climate scientists have estimated that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost ... Read more...
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Improved simulation software for predicting tsunamis developed
July 10th, 2008 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have developed an improved simulation program for predicting tsunami events with the potential for ... Read more...
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Evidence of explosive volcanism in Arctic Ocean seen for first time
June 26th, 2008 - 12:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 26 (ANI): An international team of researchers has provided evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time.The researchers were led by ... Read more...
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Researchers demystify collapse of super-continent Gondwana
April 25th, 2008 - 4:26 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 25 (IANS) Geologists, long exercised over the breakdown of the super-continent Gondwana, have developed a multitude of scenarios that either claim it separated into small plates, or broke into just ... Read more...
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Computer model solves mystery of ancient supercontinents demise
April 24th, 2008 - 5:34 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 24 (ANI): A new computer model has solved the mystery behind the breaking up of Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent.Dr Graeme Eagles from the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, ... Read more...
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Supercontinent of Gondwana may have collapsed under its own weight
March 23rd, 2008 - 3:21 pm ICT by admin
London, March 23 (ANI): A new computer model of Gondwana - the southern hemisphere supercontinent that existed between 500 and 180 million years ago, has suggested that it simply cracked in ... Read more...
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Stratospheric ozone chemistry plays an important role for atmospheric airflow patterns
March 9th, 2008 - 1:52 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 9 (ANI): Using climate simulations, scientists have determined that interactions between the stratospheric ozone chemistry and atmospheric air flow lead to significant changes of airflow patterns from the ground up ... Read more...
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Football-sized boulders may help predict sea-level rise
February 29th, 2008 - 2:20 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 29 (ANI): A new research has determined that boulders the size of footballs could help scientists predict the West Antarctic Ice Sheets (WAIS) contribution to sea-level rise.For the research, scientists ... Read more...
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Arctic boulders confirm that glaciers are thinning
February 29th, 2008 - 11:04 am ICT by admin
London, Feb 29(IANS) Huge boulders could enable scientists to predict the contribution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) to sea level rise, according to the latest issue of Geology. These boulders ... Read more...
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Environmental conditions in Antarctica were even more severe than seen today
February 17th, 2008 - 2:13 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): A new report has determined that during the ice ages, the extreme cold and environmental conditions in Antarctica were even more severe than seen today, thus forcing many ... Read more...
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European Icebreaker ship may revolutionise ocean science
December 2nd, 2007 - 12:05 pm ICT by admin
Washington, December2 (ANI): European researchers are developing an unusual international ship with the ability to break the ice as it moves forward and astern and to port and starboard.The project was unveiled ... Read more...
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New recording system to detect approaching tsunamis
November 20th, 2007 - 1:29 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new seafloor pressure recording system to detect tsunamis shortly after their development in the open ocean.
Developed by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute ... Read more...
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India and Germany sign seven agreements
November 14th, 2007 - 8:07 am ICT by admin
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