Tracking Orbitsconsider measuring waves crashing across the ocean's surface Zhu said. We needed to pinpoint those complex fluctuations without having the data obscured by the deep water underneath.
Operations center at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space. Schwadron and IBEX colleagues published their findings online today in Science.
In addition Makira's forests serve as a zone of watershed protection providing clean water to over 250000 people in the surrounding landscape.
Remarkably they showed that more than 99 per cent of the earliest farmer's cooking pots lacked sea food residues.
Other clues to ancient diets lie within human bones themselves explored by the Cardiff group led by Dr Jacqui Mulville The sea passes on a unique chemical signature to the skeletons of those eating seafood;
and wild boar and ate large quantities of sea food including seals and shellfish. With the introduction of domestic animals some 6000 years ago they quickly gave up wild foods
Amazingly it was another 4000 years before sea food remains appeared in pots again during the Iron age
and medicinesbright pink-orange microalgae found in salt lakes and coastal waters could become a renewable source of food plastics health products
Plans include the largest commercial cultivation of the single-cell organisms in water raceways lakes and photobioreactors.
The pink-orange of many salt lakes containing Dunaliella is intensified by the presence of archaea fellow single-celled organisms.**
whether UK's coasts can sustain large-scale biofuel production. The consortium is led by Durham University and builds on a range of the university's previous collaborative projects which span its departments of Chemistry Biology Earth sciences and the Durham Business school.**
#Clinical pharmacologist researching chronic lead intoxication in goatsthe Nile is a river in Egypt. Sometimes that river is polluted with industrial waste such as lead
which can cause detrimental effects on local sheep and goats via the water supply. Kansas State university's Ronette Gehring is an associate professor of clinical pharmacology in the of anatomy and physiology department of the university's College of Veterinary medicine.
When plants die some of their biomass is trapped in areas that are devoid of oxygen such as the bottom of lakes.
and sequenced the RNA genome of Barley Stripe Mosaic virus (BSMV) in a 750-year-old barley grain found at a site near the River Nile in modern-day Egypt.
Beaked whales a widespread but little-known family of toothed whales distantly related to sperm whales are found in deep ocean waters beyond the edge of the continental shelf throughout the world's oceans.
The first specimen was a female found on a Sri lankan beach more than 50 years ago.
me to realise how little we really do know about life in the oceans. There's so much out there to discover.
and in 2003 Mesoplodon traversii the spade-toothed whale was described from the Southern Ocean. Both species are known from only about five animals each.
In 2011 for the first time entomologists at the University of California Riverside released Tamarixia radiata a wasp that is the natural enemy of the ACP in a citrus grove in Riverside to help control the psyllid.
Results from Federally mandated tests performed at the University of California Riverside now show that Tamarixia radiata is indeed safe for the environment and poses no undue risk to other insects humans or pets.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Riverside. The original article was written by Iqbal Pittalwala.
In addition the clearing of woodlots hedgerows pastures and wetlands to make way for bigger fields has continued apace
because the biodiversity benefits of each organic farm will be diluted in clusters of organic farms compared to an organic island providing rich habitats in a sea of pesticide-covered conventional fields.
Exposure to pesticides starts a cascade of cellular events preventing ALDH from keeping a lid on DOPAL a toxin that naturally occurs in the brain.
In the USA influential landscape architects of the nineteenth and early twentieth century such as Frederick Law Olmsted and his student Charles Eliot advocated the creation of networks of urban parks connected to each other and through river corridors
since 1983 at the world's largest breeding area for Magellanic penguins about halfway up the Atlantic coast of Argentina at Punta Tombo where 200000 pairs reside from September through February to have their young.
Besides the coast of Argentina Magellanic penguins also breed on the Chile-side of South america
Herdwicks and Rough Fell sheep both showed rare genetic evidence of a historical link to the ancestral population of sheep on Texel one of the islands in the Wadden Sea Region of Northern europe
and eating fish from contaminated waterways. In the Rutgers study conducted in coordination with Emory University Alzheimer's disease Research Center
Sunlight hits the ocean heats it up and energy has to leave the ocean through evaporation he explained.
If you think about all the ice on top of Mt everest--who took this huge amount of material up there?
Nearer to the Borneo coastline the New guinea Sago palm first appeared over 10000 years ago. This would have involved a voyage of more than 2200km from its native New guinea
Further the products of these reactions are transported to the oceans in rivers where they ultimately form carbonate rocks like limestone that lock away carbon on the seafloor for millions of years preventing it from forming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
next prefers fresh airoff the west coast of Peru seabirds deposit thick layers of guano that accumulates on the ground because of the lack of rain.
Now researchers from Wageningen University and Southern Illinois University revealed the effects of guano on the native trees of the arid coasts of South america.
Researchers found that non-nitrogen fixing trees become more abundant closer to sea replacing the usually more abundant nitrogen fixing trees in these deserts.
Nutrients are limiting in the desert so this input from the sea through the nitrogen-rich guano has a positive effect for trees that cannot fix nitrogen.
What we found very striking is that trees that do fix nitrogen from the air do not seem to benefit from nutrients coming from the sea
and laser pioneer Frank Tittel and his group uses a thumbnail-sized quantum cascade laser (QCL) as well as tuning forks that cost no more than a dime to detect very small amounts of nitrous oxide and methane.
Methane is emitted by natural sources such as wetlands and human activities such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock.
& Society (CES) at Washington College has launched a partnership with four towns on Maryland's rural Eastern Shore that can serve as a national model for helping small communities make big reductions in energy consumption.
Partnerships with other county seats on the Eastern Shore will be forged in the second year. Shorepower is funded by a $150000 grant from Easton-based Town Creek Foundation.
We would like to see this project spread not only up and down the Shore but to the west as well he added.
and physical contact with other locusts as result of their crowding triggers a cascade of metabolic and behavioral changes that lead to their transformation into the gregarious form that goes to form the swarms.
Landis and a team of researchers from the Great lakes Bioenergy Research center compared three potential biofuel crops:
This includes farming marginal lands that produce lower yields as well as converting acreage set aside for the Conservation Reserve Program grasslands and wetlands.
Laguna del Hunco that dates to the early Eocene at about 52.2 million years ago and RÃ o Pichileufã dating to about 47.7 million years ago.
or drowning during their dangerous river crossings. Our study shows that vultures seek out areas not where wildlife are most abundant
but some spend the winter off the coast of Argentina while others winter off Chile.
#Oceans hidden waves show their power: Origins of giant underwater waves explainedlarge-scale tests in the lab and the South china sea reveal the origins of underwater waves that can tower hundreds of feet.
Their effect on the surface of the ocean is negligible producing a rise of just inches that is virtually imperceptible on a turbulent sea.
But internal waves which are hidden entirely within the ocean can tower hundreds of feet with profound effects On earth's climate and on ocean ecosystems.
Now new research both in the ocean and in the largest-ever laboratory experiments to investigate internal waves has solved a longstanding mystery about exactly how the largest known internal waves in the South china sea are produced.
or salinity differences that cause ocean water to become stratified. Though invisible to the eye the boundary between colder saltier water below and warmer less-salty water above can be detected instrumentally.
That boundary layer can resemble the ocean's surface producing waves that reach towering heights travel vast distances
and can play a key role in the mixing of ocean waters helping drive warm surface waters downward
Because these internal waves are hard to detect it is often a challenge to study them directly in the ocean.
These are the most powerful internal waves discovered thus far in the ocean Peacock says. These are skyscraper-scale waves.
They are the lumbering giants of the ocean Peacock says. The team's large-scale laboratory experiments on the generation of such waves used a detailed topographic model of the Luzon Strait's seafloor mounted in a 50-foot-diameter rotating tank in Grenoble France
The last major field program of research on internal-wave generation took place off the coast of Hawaii in 1999.
In the years since scientists have come to a greater appreciation of the significance of these giant waves in the mixing of ocean water--and therefore in global climate.
These waves are potentially the key mechanism for transferring heat from the upper ocean to the depths Peacock says so the focus of the research was to determine exactly how the largest of these waves as revealed through satellite imagery of the Luzon Strait region are generated.
The existence of internal waves in oceans has been known for well over a century Peacock says but they have remained poorly understood because of the difficulty of observations Among the new techniques that have helped to propel the field forward is the use of satellite data:
Internal waves can bring nutrients up from ocean depths Peacock says. Matthew Alford an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who was involved in the related field studies for this project says The strong forcing
and ridge geometry at Luzon Strait result in some of the strongest internal waves in the world's oceans.
and Arkansas and also has collaborated on the analysis of otters and hellbenders in Missouri rivers. Her study Using genetic profiles of African forest elephants to infer population structure movements
In contrast their distance from the equator ranged from 3900 to 5500 km their altitude above sea level from 50 to 1750 m
This is problematic because many rivers carry less water. If the increase in water use is limited agricultural production will not be lowered significantly.
If the use of river water is regulated not both water quality and biodiversity could be affected negatively.
Based on models and an interdisciplinary approach they tested a variety of options for a dry area (Plain of the Broye) and an area less dry (Lake of Greifen) up to 2050.
Entomologists at the University of California Riverside have developed now a pheromone-assisted technique as an economically viable approach to maximize the efficacy of conventional sprays targeting the invasive Argentine ant.
and the impact of these insecticides on urban waterways it is critical to develop alternative integrated pest management strategies
and found in urban waterways while still providing effective control of the target ant species Choe said.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Riverside. The original article was written by Iqbal Pittalwala.
and ocean variability than at first thought. Observations by a team of scientists at British Antarctic Survey and other institutions show large fluctuations in the ocean heat in Pine Island Bay.
The team discovered that oceanic melting of the ice shelf into which the glacier flows decreased by 50 per cent between 2010 and 2012
The acceleration is thought to be caused by thinning of the floating ice shelf created as the glacier slides into the sea.
and the glacier's response is key to assessing how much it will contribute to rising sea levels.
It's now known that much of the thinning is due to a deep oceanic inflow of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) on the continental shelf neighbouring the glacier.
But observations made in January 2012 and reported now in Science show that ocean melting of the glacier was the lowest ever recorded.
High resolution simulations of the ocean circulation in the ice shelf cavity demonstrate that the ridge blocks the deepest ocean waters from reaching the thickest ice.
In January 2012 the dramatic cooling of the ocean around the glacier is believed to be due to an increase in easterly winds caused by a strong La Nin㣠event in the tropical Pacific ocean.
The study stresses the importance of both local geology and climate variability in ocean melting in this region.
We found ocean melting of the glacier was the lowest ever recorded and less than half of that observed in 2010.
This enormous and unexpected variability contradicts the widespread view that a simple and steady ocean warming in the region is eroding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
It is not so much the ocean variability which is modest by comparison with many parts of the ocean
but the extreme sensitivity of the ice shelf to such modest changes in ocean properties that took us by surprise.
That sensitivity is a result of a submarine ridge beneath the ice shelf that was discovered only in 2009
when an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle mapped the seabed beneath the ice. These new insights suggest that the recent history of ice shelf melting
Ecosystem needs--lakes and rivers need a certain amount of water for them to survive.
We had planned to drive up the coast for a few days but we went home after the first day,
The beauty of it is that it grows in rivers, and we have it in south Florida.
and will completely cover the river in a few weeks â¢time. It takes away the nutrients from the fish and blocks the whole ecosystem in the river.
In Thailand and some other countries the government hires people to cut the water hyacinth and throw it out or burn it.
He read books and poems that described China â¢s rivers, mountains and natural landscapes and painted mental pictures of his country â¢s natural wonders,
when their local river or air is contaminated. Today, the boy who once chased bugs under Beijing â¢s streetlamps is innovating Chinese environmentalism by giving people and businesses
the sea change Ma wanted and that he hoped to spark by using the Internet was not immediate.
which drained into neighboring Nantaizi Lake. Water tests showed the lake was polluted seriously with heavy metals
copper and nickel. The audit confirmed that the factory had taken major corrective action to fix the issues cited in our Apple report,
But they threw their pot ale (the leftover swill of dead yeast and water) into the ocean.
Transporting the pot ale to a different stretch of coast where a pipe would expel it into the Sound of Islay was pricey.
like the East and West Coasts. I don't think, from a large consumer perspective, he said,
Dove and her team worked on the remains of the geese from the 2009 US AIRWAYS landing in the Hudson river.
but powerful winds and rivers brought in massive amounts of silt and dust to these frigid areas.
and often causing a lake or wetland to form. The dark surface of the lake's water will then capture more heat from the sun
and cause the surrounding permafrost to thaw as well. Near thermokarsts, the forests often are called drunken,
Fairbanks scientist, told The New york times. He is working with another scientist on mapping thermokarst lakes
But when organic matter breaks down at the bottom of a lake or wetland then another type of bacteria (methanogens) will break it down,
A 2007 lightning-sparked fire on the Anaktuvuk River in northern Alaska was the first of its size (400 square miles) in 5, 000 years.
The land around these two bays in Northern Siberia is dotted with thermokarst lakes. NASA Goddard Photo and Video/Flickr) via:
Within the park, you'll find a zoo, lakes, botanic gardens, ice-skating rinks, concert venues--and priceless views of the surrounding skyscrapers.
and other entertainment. 3. London, England Hyde park is the city's largest, with 350-plus acres along a lake, boat rentals, horseback riding, Speakers'Corner,
France Luxembourg Gardens is one of those quintessentially romantic Paris spots--Luxembourg Palace against a backdrop of a lake, fountains,
Jardin des Tuileries, in the 1st arrondissement, is in an equally postcard-perfect location along the Right Bank of the Seine river.
stop for tea on the plaza near the Chinese pagoda, feed the ducks on the lake,
Illinois Fronting Lake michigan, Grant Park is one of the city's finest green spaces. The 300-acre park,
Lincoln Park is another Chicago institution, with a lakefront theatre, a zoo, a bird sanctuary, and a lagoon with paddleboats.
Best Time to Visit: In summer, cool off and get wet under the fountains at Millennium Park
, Birrarung Mar along the Yarra River, and Flagstaff Gardens. Spy black swans, and breathe in the scent of eucalyptus trees.
Pennypack Park along the Delaware river; the Azalea Garden; Boathouse Row; Batram's Garden; the Japanese House and Garden;
Franklin D. Roosevelt Park (The Lakes; and East and West Parks. Best Time to Visit:
Nitrogen levels in the Yazoo River, which feeds into the Mississippi, have grown 7 percent between 2002 and 2008, with repercussions for the Gulf's dead zone.
In an article discussing whether the oil spill or ethanol was worse for the Gulf, SF Gate reported:
Ethanol consumes two-thirds of all federal subsidies for renewable fuels, said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working group,
it was the Venus'Flower Basket sea sponge, a glowing creature that thrives in the inky depths of the sea.
The animal is distinctive because it creates a shiny silicon-based material that bonds together,
Much like the sea sponge maneuvers water through its latticelike exoskeleton, Lord Norman Foster's tower--officially 30 St mary Axe,
plant covered hills that help funnel the cool sea air flowing in from the Pacific ocean into grates.
or materials that are tossed into waste sites and landfills and oceans. We're looking for resins to replace plastics,
which is gradually being reclaimed by the sea. Armstrong believes the protocell droplets could be deployed beneath the crumbling city to act as a living limestone foundation.
We did some experiments inside the Venice lagoon with architecture students and we know it works with the Venice water,
But much of the North american supply is too far from an inland waterway or rail loading yard to make it economical.
They are trying to get 56 miles of rail built that would restore rail service from Chicago to the Gulf of mexico
or west before they can get south to the Gulf, making the economics unworkable. That 56 miles might as well be 5000 miles to them,
A pavilion that overlooks the lake and gardens. The space will provide magnificent views of the gardens and the mall.
where children will discover the joys of newly discovered lake-edge activities, and where nearby workers can stop for a drink.
They foraged on the beach tasted leeks and asparagus fresh out of the ground, then created a feast using little or no electricity.
whatever came out of the sea, whatever was hunted that day, all that got put into the dish,
losses of flora, fauna and ocean's ecosystems will impact food supply and the livelihood of millions who depend on these resources.
and preventing ocean acidification. Read targets here. However funds needed to implement policies are still missing.
In Boston, the rooftop of the Sea Port hotel houses hundreds of thousands of bees (pollinating hundreds of local gardens throughout the city.
--if and when it arrives to our shores, it will be a stronger more evolved strain posing a significant threat to honey bees and our pollination services,
At the same time, soil is the catchment area for water that becomes part of our drinking water. So we need the tools to understand how soil is used,
Whereas it took three years to construct the world's longest sea-bridge in China,
China unveils world s longest sea bridge, but is it? Infographic: Which American cities are most vulnerable to natural disasters?
like the deepwater Gulf of mexico, the EROI varies from 4 to 14 (Moerschbaecher, 2012). Hall and Murphy have also found that a given fuel must have an EROI of at least 3 to deliver a net benefit to society because of the associated infrastructure needed to support
Carbon is sequestered naturally in the environment, fixed in the wood of forests, the coral of reefs, the peat of bogs,
and the planktonic oozes of the oceans. Nature should be our greatest asset but we are degrading it
and sea level damage. When you add up what is being lost, and you also take away the government subsidies
such as leaving traditional communities without the natural wealth they relied upon, a problem which falls back on governments and seeds unrest.
For example utility companies that manage watersheds are seeing how biodiversity helps provide clean water, by protecting biodiversity they reduce their water-treatment costs,
including the Lyme spirochete, West Nile virus, and Hanta viruses. Recent studies suggest that contact with nature can have positive effects on our mental health.
We would like to know how much impact (the radiation has) on the natural world, such as forest, river,
underground water and ocean, says lead researcher Takayuki Takahashi of Fukushima University. We will draw the map to show the movement of radioactivity.
As the radiation moves from the forest to the ocean, it is important to set a baseline of knowledge to see how it affects humans and animals in the long run,
and terminate in the watershed of the Chesapeake bay. They ve gone to great lengths to make it very local.
The Apple store in The british-frequented wealthy beach town of Marbella just opened last week.
Through the Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP), the city on the lake is working toward an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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With urban farms, Motor city could be nearly self-sustainingas efficient as a dense metropolis is per square mile,
And it's also where the much of the ice streams drains out into the sea rather than collect on a large ice shelf.
That means that the ice will flow into the ocean at a faster rate, contributing even more to sea level rise.
Such an acceleration is of particular concern at the Pine Island Glacier, because, among Antarctic glaciers, it's the one that's contributing the most to sea level rise.
In fact, he said, ice flows from that glacier alone account for a quarter to a third of Antarctica's total contribution to sea level rise.
While both polar caps are losing ice as the world's climate warms the Pine Island glacier is melting at an alarming rate, about six meters a year, according to an ABC News report.
With ports in the Pacific and Gulf of mexico, Mexico has always been a crossroads, he said.
Weve been a leader in waterfront development for about 35 years. Along with Faneuil Hall in Boston
Harborplace was one of the original waterfront destinations. Its a great asset to the city.
United states In Buffalo, New york, saving bees is part of a local business person's vision for redeveloping a waterfront industrial site into a design district.
a chemical reaction happens that turns the slimy mass into a little rock-like object that can be collected from the beaches.
So now, rather than crawling the beaches for little hunks of whale vomit, researchers could manufacture a similar compound in the lab. Ambergris in a bowl Before you go check your perfume bottles,
Yes, those tall, sturdy reeds that usually grow in wetlands or marshy areas and that figure prominently in the Moses story.
and I get fish from the river, so why do need we this?''He says Cityfarms can be built upon any flat
It has pools that look like lakes! as if looking at Barbie's dream house. The gallery in which such varied discussions are taking place houses the exhibition Foreclosed:
plus a lock of land every 10 miles--allowed California to be connected to the Eastern Seaboard in just seven years.
and in other endangered habitats, such as coral reefs and ocean islands. With local people trained to do the footwork
There's a lot of money on the West Coast to do new things. Seven out of 10 companies these entrepreneur guys start never succeed.
but you have to realize that with the BP-Transocean oil spill we just poisoned half the food chain down there in the Gulf of mexico.
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