water temperature
NASA Sees One Area of Strength in Tropical Storm Emang
On Jan. 16 at 0702 UTC (2:02 a.m. EST) NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Emang, and captured rainfall rates. TRMM…
Robofish Grace glides with the greatest of ease
MSU scientists have made a number of improvements on the fish, including the ability to glide long distances, which is the most important change to date. The…
Polar perils
By Christina Benjaminsen and Åse DraglandOn a light June night in 1989 the Russian cruise ship Maxim Gorkiy glides peacefully along the coast of Svalbard….
Climate change increases stress, need for restoration on grazed public lands
A growing degradation of grazing lands could be mitigated if large areas of Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest Service lands became free of use by…
Sweden’s only coral reef at risk of dying
Coral reefs are known for their rich biological diversity. In Sweden, only one reef-building coral species exists, a cold-water coral called Lophelia pertusa.Lophelia pertusa requires an environment with a constant high level of salinity and low water temperatures all year round. In Sweden, these conditions only exist in the northern part of Bohuslän, where deep water from the Atlantic is led in via the Norwegian Trench….
Florida Tech researchers diagnose coral disease
Marine diseases are killing coral populations all over the world, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on reefs for food and protection…