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Marine Diatoms’ Role in Boosting Continental Weathering

Diatoms consume 70 million tons of carbon from the world's oceans daily, producing organic matter, a portion of which sinks and is buried in deep ocean…

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Malaspina Expedition Unlocks Deep Ocean DOC Storage Secrets

Researchers from the Malaspina Expedition have made strides in the understanding of the mechanisms governing the persistence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC)…

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NASA Studies Tropical Cyclone Nathan Over Cape York Peninsula

On March 19, from at 1:17 to 2:49 UTC, before landfall, the RapidScat instrument that flies aboard the International Space Station studied Nathan's winds….

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Volcanic Eruption: Did It End the Neanderthals’ Existence?

The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a significant amount of…

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Global Ice Ages: New Study Links Glacier Movement to Climate Factors

The researchers found that glacier movement in the Southern Hemisphere is influenced primarily by sea surface temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide rather…

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Fresh Water Surge: Glacial Melt Floods Gulf of Alaska

Since it's broken into literally thousands of small drainages pouring off mountains that rise quickly from sea level over a short distance, the totality of…

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Unprecedented early warning of El Niño succeeds

“While conventional methods are not able to yield a reasonably reliable El Niño prediction more than six months before the event, our method at least doubles…

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Unaweep Canyon and Earth's deep-time past

Unaweep Canyon is a puzzling landscape — the only canyon on Earth with two mouths. First formally documented by western explorers mapping the Colorado…

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NASA Monitors Tropical Cyclone Nathan’s Intense Hot Towers

Cyclone Nathan is located in the Coral Sea off Australia's Queensland coast. Nathan formed on March 10 near the Queensland coast triggering warnings there…

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Partial Solar Eclipse and Storm Over Central Europe

A total eclipse will be visible further north for the residents of the Faeroe Islands and Svalbard. In northeastern Germany 75% of the sun will be covered by…

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Swept Away — Deep-sea robot, caught in underwater avalanche, yields new scientific insights

In 2013, one of MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) was literally swept away by a turbidity current. Fortunately, the vehicle survived, giving…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Tropical Cyclone Bavi’s Decline

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite revealed warming infrared temperature data of Tropical Cyclone…

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NASA eyes Tropical Cyclone Nathan's Australian comeback

Two instruments aboard Aqua, MODIS and AIRS captured data on Nathan as it was tracking back toward Queensland. The Moderate Resolution Imaging…

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Gulf of Mexico Marine Food Web Changes Revealed Over Decades

Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico now have a better understanding of how naturally-occurring climate cycles–as well as human activities–can trigger widespread…

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RapidScat eyes Ex-Tropical Cyclone Pam's winds near Chatham Islands

The International Space Station's RapidScat instrument captured data on Ex-Tropical Cyclone Pam's winds on March 16 from 08:30 to 11:36 UTC.

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Global Warming: More Snow for Antarctica Revealed by Research

Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, their work builds on high-quality ice-core data and fundamental laws of physics captured in global and regional…

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