Posts Tagged ‘Ocean’

Washington, April 8 (ANI): Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. The study, which was partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted in an ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): United Nation's climate panel chief and Nobel laureate R K Pachauri has said melting glaciers could adversely impact river systems in India. "If you look at the impact of melting of glaciers, it is not only reduction in supply in the river system but this will also have an impact on recharge of ground water because rivers plays an extremely important ... Full story

Washington, April 7 (DPA) The US warned Monday of 'difficult diplomacy' in finding agreement on a strong, effective international reaction to North Korea's defiant launching of a missile over the weekend. 'The issue's a bit complicated, as you know, and it's going to take time,' Robert Wood, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, told reporters. 'It's not something, I would suspect, that we could resolve ... Full story

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have worked out a mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be. The research, led by Newcastle University's Professor Robin Johnson, was prompted by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami disaster which devastated coastal communities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. ... Full story

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Conservationists have reported a previously unknown population of Irrawaddy dolphins in Bangladesh, which would give scientists "great hope" for the survival of the rare species. According to a report in National Geographic News, a research team estimated that 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins thrive in the country's Sundarbans mangrove forests and nearby waters of the Bay of Bengal. The group is the largest ever found. Previously, ... Full story

London, Mar 30 (ANI): A bunch of Arctic explorers have found a rather 'saucy' tool to navigate their way to the North Pole-a pair of lacy underwear for the ladies. The Catlin Arctic Survey are using a pair of lady's knickers to help them with directions after compasses failed to work. The explorers are trekking 700 miles to the North Pole to measure the thickness of the ... Full story

Washington, March 27 (ANI): Engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), for the first time, have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of fish. The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique, "provides information essential to the conservation of ... Full story

Washington, Mar 19 (ANI): Rumours are abuzz that Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is planning to tie the knot with his girlfriend, model Emma Heming. Sources have revealed that Willis is planning an intimate wedding this week in Turks and Caicos, where he owns a home. A block of ocean view rooms and private villas are said to have been booked for Willis's guests at ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): Scientists are taking the help of a robot submarine to travel under an Antarctic glacier and learn why it has been thinning and accelerating over recent decades. Autosub, the robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been exploring Pine Island Glacier, a floating extension of the West Antarctic ice sheet, using sonar scanners to map the ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): The European Space Agency's (ESA's) has launched its Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), which will map Earth's gravity field in unprecedented detail. Launched from the Russian Cosmodrome Plesetsk, GOCE is the first satellite mission within the framework of the Living Planet Programme of ESA. From the data obtained, the GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences ... Full story

Sydney, March 17 (ANI): An international team of geologists has claimed that photosynthesizing life forms created an excess of oxygen in the oceans 700 million years earlier than previous estimates suggest. According to a report in ABC News, bands of haematite in the Marble Bar Cherst reveal the presence of aerobic bacteria nearly 3.5 billion years ago. The research pushes back the earliest appearance of photosynthesizing organisms ... Full story

London, March 14 (ANI): A scientist is analyzing the age of craters found on the Moon in the 1990s to find out if they are the same age as the others, which would support the idea that asteroids bombarded the inner solar system about 4 billion years ago. Most surveys ... Full story

Hyderabad, Mar 13 (ANI): The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad has developed a Tsunami Early Warning System to provide special kind of data for the safety of people living in the Indian coastal areas. The Early Warning System will mitigate Oceanogenic disasters that cause severe threat to nearly 400 million people that live in the coastal belt leading to huge devastation ... Full story

London, March 12 (ANI): A new research has shown that even the deepest, darkest reaches of the Antarctic abyss have been affected by global warming. The research, conducted by Gregory Johnson, of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and a team of international colleagues, suggests the changes could be responsible for up to 20 percent of the observed global sea-level rise. As part of the CLIVAR ... Full story

Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): E! Entertainment Television donated 250,000 dollars to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year. The network's contribution was one of just four donations to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's joint charitable fund. The others were Jolie (1,194,911 dollars) and Brad (956.961 dollars) themselves, and "Ocean's ... Full story

Washington, March 11 (ANI): A new study has indicated that fumigant pumped into tented houses to kill pests remains in atmosphere six to 10 times longer than previously thought, thus becoming a potent greenhouse gas. The study was conducted by a research team led by Jens Muhle, an atmospheric chemist ... Full story

Washington, March 10 (ANI): New findings have shown that some sources of dust that is deposited in oceans also carry toxic elements that can kill marine alagae. Dust blown off the continents and deposited in the open ocean is an important source of nutrients for marine phytoplankton, the tiny algae that are the foundation ... Full story

Washington, March 10 (ANI): British explorer, environmentalist, and celebrity David de Rothschild, is all set to go on an 11,000-mile (17,703-kilometer) journey across the Pacific Ocean at the end of March, in a boat made of plastic bottles. According to a report in National Geographic Magazine, the boat, which is a 60-foot (18-meter) catamaran called 'Plastiki', has been created from a special composite of recycled ... Full story

Washington, March 10 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that if carbon dioxide (CO2) reaches double pre-industrial levels, coral reefs can be expected to not just stop growing, but also to begin dissolving all over the world. The study, by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the ... Full story

New Delhi, March 9 (ANI): China is working on an ambitions ocean exploration program that may send men to 7,000 meters deep into the ocean, for the first time in the world. According to Sun Zhihui, director of the State Oceanic Administration, a deep-sea manned submersible for the mission has been assembled last year and the test would begin this year. If successful, the China-made ... Full story