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Tag Archives: Sea

12May/17

Study finds sea salt is contaminated with microplastics

May 12, 2017EnvironmentArticles, Australia, Environment, France, Great Pacific garbage patch, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Manufacturing, Microplastics, Natural environment, Nature, New Zealand, NEXT MEDIA, Physical sciences, Plastic, Plastic pollution, Plastic soup, Pollution, Portugal, Salt, Sea, Sea salt, South Africa, Structure, Waste, Water pollutionsmbale

Plastic waste we’ve been throwing in the ocean is now coming back to us via the food we eat.
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17Dec/16

Google develops floating data centers propelled by windmill-like kites

December 17, 2016InnovationAirborne wind energy, Airborne wind turbine, Aircraft, Alphabet Inc., Articles, Autonomous car, Company: Google, Crosswind kite power, Economy, Electromechanical engineering, energy, Energy conversion, Environment, Google, High-altitude wind power, Human activities, Kite, Kites, Sea, Technology, Technology/Internet, Visual arts, Wind turbines, Xsmbale

After developing self-driving cars, Google is set to bring its innovation prowess to the seas, with a novel new ship propulsion system that uses kite energy.
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26Oct/15

Plankton poo clue could aid climate predictions

October 26, 2015ScienceAquatic ecology, Biological oceanography, Biological pump, Carbon dioxide, Chemical oceanography, Fisheries science, Geochemistry, Marine biology, Marine snow, Oceanography, Physical sciences, Phytoplankton, Planktology, Plankton, RICHARD SANDERS, Sea, Southampton, STEPHANIE HENSON, United Kingdomsmbale

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND, UK (REUTERS) – Marine scientists call it the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’, where only a small amount of sunlight can penetrate.

But it’s the ocean life here – between 100 and 1000 metres deep – that scientists say is crucial for keeping atmospheric carbon-dioxide (CO2) levels 30 percent lower than it otherwise would be.
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25May/15

Four years of study shows plankton is more than just whale food

May 25, 2015InnovationAquatic ecology, Ban Ki-moon, Biological oceanography, Biology, Carbon dioxide, Chemistry, Chris Bowler, Diatom, Environment, Fisheries, Fisheries science, France, London, Marine biology, Marine life, Ocean, Oceanography, Paris, Physical geography, Planktology, Plankton, Romain Troublé, Sea, Tara expedition, Tara Ocean, TARA OCEANS, Watersmbale

Scientists from the Tara Ocean expedition unveil the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the world’s ocean plankton, the tiny organisms that serve as food for marine creatures such as the blue whale, but also provide half the oxygen we breathe.

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04May/15

Oxygen-deprived dead zones found in the Atlantic Ocean

May 4, 2015EnvironmentAquatic ecology, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde, Chemical oceanography, Chemistry, Dead zone, Disaster/Accident, Ecotoxicology, Eddy, Environment, Fisheries, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, Marine biology, Matter, Natural sciences, NEXT MEDIA, Ocean Research Kiel, Oxygen, Physical sciences, Sea, Water, Water pollutionsmbale

Atlantic Ocean (Next Media) – Researchers of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany have discovered unexpectedly low oxygen dead zones traveling inside 100-mile-long eddies of swirling water across the Atlantic Ocean. Their discovery was published in the journal, Biogeosciences.
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