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Showing releases 51-75 out of 985. << < 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 > >>
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
 NatureTropical Indo-Pacific climate shifts to a more El Niņo-like state Climate models predict a slowdown of the Walker circulation with global warming. Atmospheric models, however, have failed to reproduce the slowdown already observed over the last 60 years, casting doubt on their ability to simulate slow climate change. Now a study published in this week's issue of Nature has succeeded in simulating the slowdown and shows that changes in the sea surface temperature pattern across the Indo-Pacific are the cause. 
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, National Basic Research Program of China, NASA, National Science Foundation, NOAA
Contact: Gisela Speidel
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
Preserve the services of mangroves -- Earth's invaluable coastal forests, experts urge Experts urge policy makers to preserve mangroves and their essential services to nature and humanity alike, saying their replacement with shrimp farms and other forms of development is a bad economic tradeoff both short and long-term. An unprecedented partnership of organizations -- from forestry and conservation sectors and from across the UN -- have released a policy brief drawing on the 2nd edition of the World Atlas of Mangroves (2010). It captures lessons learned past mangrove conservation and management efforts, and offers policy recommendations. Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPacific fishing zones -- lifeline for overfished tuna? Marine zoning in the Pacific Ocean, in combination with other measures, could significantly improve numbers of heavily overfished bigeye tuna and improve local economies, a fish modelling study has found.
European Union, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Marcie Grabowski
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
GeologyGEOLOGY speeding top science to online platform Between Oct. 19 and Nov. 13, The Geological Society of America's top geoscience journal, GEOLOGY, posted 35 new studies online ahead of print. A selection of those studies is highlighted here and includes a broad spectrum of geoscience disciplines, such as volcanology, glaciology, paleoclimatology, paleontology, and mineralogy, with locations like the Society Islands, the US Basin and Range Province, the Mojave Desert, Timor, Nicaragua, New Zealand's Southern Alps, and the Arctic Ocean Beaufort Sea margin. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
ScienceScientists question the designation of some emerging diseases The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. Contact: Robert Cahill
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
European Space Agency conference on Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science Environmental Research LettersWarming temperatures will change Greenland's face Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and a colleague have made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.
National Science Foundation
Contact: JESSA NETTING
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Ecology LettersNaīve fish: Easy targets for spear fishers Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don't seem to know enough to avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve. The latest research by an Australian team working in the Philippines into the effects of marine reserves has found there is an unexpected windfall awaiting fishers who obey the rules and respect reserve boundaries -- in the form of big, innocent fish wandering out of the reserve.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
Contact: Nick Graham
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
NatureScientists unravel the mystery of marine methane oxidation Researchers uncover how microorganisms on the ocean floor protect the atmosphere against methane. Contact: Marcel Kuypers
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Devotes, a project to investigate marine biodiversity and the environment of European seas The European Commission has started an ambitious project investigating knowledge of marine biodiversity and assessing marine environmental status. Contact: Irati Kortabitarte
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCatch and release A research team at Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel device that may one day have broad therapeutic and diagnostic uses in the detection and capture of rare cell types, such as cancer cells, fetal cells, viruses and bacteria.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Marjorie Montemayor-Quellenberg
Public Release: 11-Nov-2012
Continental Shelf ResearchUndersea gas leaks off Israel's coast are discovered by University of Haifa researchers Undersea gas leaks off Israel's coast are discovered by University of Haifa researchers. "Geophysical information enables us to research beneath the sea floor and map out the entire system, from the gas sources to their penetration of the sea waters," says Dr. Uri Schattner, head of the Department of Marine Geosciences Contact: Rachel Feldman
Public Release: 11-Nov-2012
Nature GeoscienceWhy Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds, is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists from NERC's British Antarctic Survey and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena California explain why, unlike the dramatic losses reported in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change.
Natural Environment Research Council, NASA
Contact: Audrey Stevens
Public Release: 11-Nov-2012
2012 AGU Fall Meeting Nature Climate Change'Groundwater inundation' doubles previous predictions of flooding with future sea level rise Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa published a study today in Nature Climate Change showing that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to "groundwater inundation," a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of sea level rise.
US Deptartment of the Interior, Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Storms Program
Contact: Marcie Grabowski
Public Release: 9-Nov-2012
33 Annual Meeting - Society of Environmental Toxicology and ChemistrySETAC announces Chris Lee Award for metals research winner, Kevin Brix The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry will present the SETAC/ICA Chris Lee Award to Kevin Brix at the its 33rd Annual Meeting next week. Brix recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Miami and has already made exceptional contributions to the understanding of fate and effects of metals in the environment, to the mechanistic environmental toxicology of metals, and to the improvement of environmental regulations for metals.
SETAC/International Copper Association
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, UM Rosenstiel School
Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
Journal of Experimental BiologyDespite their thick skins, alligators and crocodiles are surprisingly touchy Researchers have discovered that alligators and crocodiles possess one of the most acute senses of touch in the animal kingdom.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David F Salisbury
Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
ScienceCorals attacked by toxic seaweed use chemical 911 signals to summon help Corals under attack by toxic seaweed do what anyone might do when threatened -- they call for help. A study to be reported Nov. 9 in the journal Science shows that threatened corals send signals to fish "bodyguards" that quickly respond to trim back the noxious alga -- which can kill the coral if not promptly removed.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society BHistoric coral collapse on Great Barrier Reef Australian marine scientists have unearthed evidence of an historic coral collapse in Queensland's Palm Islands following development on the nearby mainland. Cores taken through the coral reef at Pelorus Island confirm a healthy community of branching Acropora corals flourished for centuries before European settlement of the area, despite frequent floods and cyclone events. Then, between 1920 and 1955, the branching Acropora failed to recover.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
Contact: John Pandolfi
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
Conservation BiologySharks: Bad creatures or bad image? Historically, the media have been particularly harsh to sharks, and it's affecting their survival. The results of a Michigan State University study, appearing in the current issue of the journal Conservation Biology, reviewed worldwide media coverage of sharks -- and the majority isn't good. Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
Synthetic biofilter wins through to the top 'Sweet 16' in Boston Months of painstaking work in the laboratory at Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology have paid off: the 15 students participating in this year's 'international Genetically Engineered Machine competition' at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have good reason to celebrate. The goal of their project was to develop a biological filter that removes estrogen from drinking water. It was a success: they managed to produce enzymes that break down the hormone. Contact: Robert Braun
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
Better climate predictions for Europe A European initiative for climate service observation and modeling, funded by the European Commission is launched. Contact: Chiara Bearzotti
Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
PLOS ONEWhy fish talk Clownfish produce sounds to establish and defend their breeding status in social groups, but not to attract mates, according to research published Nov. 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Orphal Colleye and colleagues from the University of Liege, Belgium. Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan
Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
2012 GSA Annual Meeting & ExpositionWhat paleotempestology tells scientists about today's tempests Understanding Earth's paleo-hurricane record cannot be more timely and important in a light of Hurricane Sandy, which shocked the US East Coast last week. Talks in this Wednesday afternoon session at the GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, integrate field, lab, and model analysis of past hurricanes and future scenarios, covering a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesStrange diet for methane consuming microorganisms Methane supplies the energy for cell metabolism, but is not the carbon source. Contact: Dr. Manfred Schloesser
Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
ScienceStirred not mixed: How seawater turbulence affects marine food webs New research shows that ocean turbulence directly affects the ability of microscopic marine organisms to recycle organic material back into the food web.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
Geophysical Research LettersTaking the 'pulse' of volcanoes using satellite images A new study by scientists at the University of Miami in GRL uses satellite data to investigate deformation prior to the eruption of active volcanoes in Indonesia's west Sunda arc.
NASA, National Science Foundation, Japanese Space Agency
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
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