The paper highlights the Aral sea in Central asia as an example of a collapsed ecosystem. River-diversion projects have caused the body of water, once the fourth-largest lake in the world,
to lose about 90%of its volume in the past 50 years, stranding fishing boats (pictured) and depleting native wildlife.
and think,'what can we do to keep the oceans clean
Amazon plant discovery could yield green cash cropin a farmer s garden deep in the Peruvian Amazon in August 2012, Rainer Bussmann and Carlos Vega struck oil.
The Samoylov station, located on a small island in the Lena Delta close to the Laptev Sea, replaces a 15-year-old small wooden station situated nearby.
Hannah Hoagfreshwater lifeline Ontario s government threw a lifeline to Canada s Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) on 24 Â April.
Canada. go. nature. com/enai636-8 may Darmstadt, Germany, hosts the first international meeting on research into ocean colour science:
how satellite observations of the ocean can infer photosynthesis and other activity from colour. go. nature. com/ubntid
visitors will encounter a shiny expanse of recycled plastic jutting out to sea on a platform of steel-reinforced concrete."
would have banned fishing in 1. 6  million  square  kilometres of the Ross Sea
home on its eastern end to the 24,000-hectare Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve declared a region of international ecological importance by the Ramsar Convention, a global wetland-conservation treaty.
so far consuming more than 10%of the wetland. It colonizes an area by forming dense bundles with deeply penetrating roots squeezing out native plants
eating mudflats and drying up wetlands. At Dongtan,"this has had devastating consequences for many bird species,
In October, construction of an 8-metre-high, 27-kilometre-long sea wall is set to begin at the heart of the reserve.
and sea walls have been used in past decades to reclaim land from the sea for agriculture and other human uses.
permanent sea wall to resolve it. Melville and other experts note that an 8-metre-high wall accounting for more than 80%of the project s budget is unnecessary
For example, without the ebb and flow of tides, the sea bulrush (Scirpus mariqueter), a native intertidal grass bearing fruit and stalks that are key food sources for many birds
says Wang Tianhou, a wetlands ecologist at East China Normal University in Shanghai.""It s unrealistic to conserve habitats without any compromise.
they would cost much less than a sea wall, be easier to secure approval for, and could eradicate the cordgrass in the entire reserve while retaining natural tidal rhythms.
But"factors other than conservation were likely to be involved in the decision-making process that led to the plan for a permanent sea wall,
Reclaiming land from the sea is seen as an easy and cheap option. Researchers such as Li are pragmatic about the possibility that part of the reserve might one day be coopted for farming."
advocates warned that Europe risks becoming a scientific backwater as the rest of the world increasingly adopts the technology."
The calving event dumped a 720-square-kilometre chunk of ice into the Amundsen Sea off western Antarctica,
peatlands and wetlands rich in sequestered carbon causing large emissions of carbon dioxide.""It s kind of obvious if you think about it,
Arctic ice low The extent of Arctic sea ice reached its minimum for the year on 13 Â September,
Estrada's study would be had stronger it also considered changes in ocean heat uptake and aerosol cooling,
led by Sylvain Bonhommeau, a fisheries scientist at The french Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in S Â te,
invasive fish have crowded out native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake at the heart of the park,
The efforts could herald a sea change for imaging. Conventional imaging satellites, which are the size of a van
Sea sickness Europe s seas are in poor health. This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.
One of the reports, from the European commission, says that the European union is failing to meet a pledge to clean up its seas by 2020.
Fukushima water Radioactive cooling water stored at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant might need to be dumped into the sea.
and predict the periodic and disruptive ocean-warming event known as El  Ni  o. The 2014 federal-government budget,
and moose populations on Isle Royale in Lake superior wax and wane in response to each other, disease and the weather.
Lake superior froze for the first time in six years. The 24-kilometre ice bridge could let wolves from the Canadian mainland cross to the US island,
Occasionally, however, Lake superior freezes. The very first wolves came to Isle Royale over an ice bridge in the early 1940s, some 30 years after the first moose.
The lake froze nearly every year at the beginning of the study but that has changed. The most recent ice bridge was in 2008;
what was once 800,000 Â hectares of lush wetlands, as well as a rare opportunity for ecologists worldwide to watch what happens.
its water ran unfettered into the Gulf of california. But most was diverted soon to slake the thirst and agricultural fields of millions of people in the American Southwest.
vast delta wetlands shrivelled to patches of vegetation clinging to sandy plains. In 2012, officials drew up an addendum to the original water treaty.
The goal was to restore sandbars and beaches in areas such as Grand canyon national park, but early attempts failed
the Northern Sea Route a shipping lane running through the Arctic could be ice-free and navigable for at least nine weeks each year,
It also projects that the region s waterways will see rising activity from fishing, tourism,
I ended up at the Rawah Lakes just west of Fort Collins. The sun just went down.
You might not remember that wolves have been listed federally de in the Great lakes and Rocky mountain Regions for a few years now.
Curiosity aroused we set off on the long journey to Dufftown Banffshire in the land of thistle and loch.
10am on August 29 2005 the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Buras-Triumph La. going on to devastate much of the Gulf Coast.
After entering the Gulf of mexico it intensified rapidly going from a Category 1 hurricane when it passed through southern Florida on August 25 2005 then gaining momentum and jumping from a Category 3 all the way up to Category 5 status over the span of about a day later that weekend.
For now at least the moon is like the sea: everyone can use it but no one can own it.
and the high seas than we are to treat it like Manhattan. If not he says we would take all the problems
if the conditions pressure and maybe having some depth in the ground of the moon there could be a underground lake of sorts trapped pool of water.
I have read they have found life in the dry salt lake of Death valley and life the boiling minerals surrounding Yellowstone national park.
I have heard of life being found at the bottom of the ocean. It seems life
So they drill to the lake and quickly start making good use of this water.
As this subterranean ocean of liquid metal slowly whirls around it behaves like a dynamo generating electrical currents and magnetic fields.
Remarkable footage has been taken of one of them with huge upwelling of ocean water as magma boils it from below.
and on about his lake of understanding but you get the idea. Oh enough both of you.@
While I find the animal habitat strange to see perhaps scientifically it would prove to be beneficial similar to artificial underwater reefs.
and sea salt (Has to be iodized NON) 2 teaspoons of salt to 1 quart of WARM water. maybe a pinch of lemon juice and then down the hatch.
and sea) available to provide resources and to absorb wastes under the constraints of current technology and management practices.
Overfishing of the oceans is a real problem. Aquaculture is improving rapidly to address those concerns.
Beyond that is being absorbed into the oceans and raising the ppm of the atmosphere. Both are warming.
As for the free carbon acidifying the ocean why would that be worrying? The acidity is neutralized by the dissolution of Calcium
which gave them an advantage over the various shellfish that dominated earlier oceans). Likewise when that carbon is needed that calcium will be freed up once again.
The report also adjusts its expectations for important climate change effects such as how much sea levels will rise
They drive decisions about what do to prepare towns and nations for rising sea levels more extreme weather and other effects from climate change.
If my local community suggested addressing concerns about a 1-3 foot sea level rise between now and the year 2100
because the sea level is going to rise 23 meters destroy Manhattan and Florida and cause the near-extinction of humanity by this time next Friday that's hype hysteria and purposeful misrepresentation of
the largest year to year drop in Arctic sea ice; the rapid melting of glaciers; the National Weather Service having to recalculate wind chill to accommodate the air having more heat than it used to;
It is obvious from past IPCC assessments that they exclude studies that show no significant warming no significant sea level rise no significant negative impact of climate change and so forth.
Their preordained conclusion is that human CO2 emissions are causing catastrophic global warming and sea level rise.
The IPCC bases its predictions on computer-generated global climate models not on extrapolating real world measures of things like sea level rise or global temperature trends.
and sea level rise based on arbitrary guesstimates of how much say CO2 aerosols water vapor etc. affects global climate.
http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/sotc/service/global/global-land-ocean-mntp-anom/201101-201112. pngco2 measured at Mauna loa compared to temperatures:
Current global sea level rise appears to be slowing slightly from the 60-year trend of 1. 7 Ã0. 3 mm per year.
Ã0. 8 mm/yr. By the way 1. 7 mm a year works out to 6. 7 inches of sea level rise every 100 years. http://ibis
a) in their parameterizations of climate feedbacks and atmosphere-ocean coupling;(b) in their neglect of indirect response by the stratosphere and of possible additional climate effects linked to solar magnetic field UV radiation solar flares and cosmic ray intensity modulations;(
Found mostly in warm freshwater lakes rivers and hotsprings Naegleria fowleri can travel up a person's nose
's western lagoon. A limestone ridge thick with vegetation juts into the cloudless blue sky behind him.
Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
For the past few years Terrill's team has used a Remus to study the ocean circulation around Palau.
A b-24 that he believes had been shot down in Palau's western reef. With the oceanographers'help he hopes Bentprop could find it.
The U s. began with a furious air campaign that was designed to knock out Japanese vessels clustered in Palau's western lagoon
Bentprop calculates that eight American planes including A b-24 bomber remain hidden in Palau's western lagoon.
Mission photographs from WORLD WAR II show the fourth a Consolidated B-24 Liberator on a path toward the western lagoon.
and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up. The identification number painted on the plane's exterior would have degraded by now;
Guided by GPS coordinates from the AUV Pat Colin director of the Coral reef Research Foundation pilots the vessel across the lagoon to the approximate location of the mystery plane.
The next day Bentprop compares the aircraft in the western lagoon with a hundred different vintage planes.
and made for the island's western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.
and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.
Today Mccullah's plane rests intact on the seabed with its nose up against the edge of the reef like a car driven up onto a curb and abandoned.
and the reef has crept into the propellers and the engine; a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit.
3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification and events like typhoons alter reefs over time.
And of course Scannon hopes that one day AUVS will lead him to his biggest find the final B-24
For now it still lies somewhere in the lagoons surrounding Palau concealed by water and time.
They have amazing sub-sea devices! Great article!!The final Youtube video at the end was chilling!
Hopefully people will realize that a shrimp isn't any thing more than a sea roach
It now washes down a river into the sea settles to the bottom and compresses for centuries.
One day it was dirt on the bottom of the ocean the next day dirt on the bottom of the ocean next day next day then Poof!
the Roman Colosseum and aqueducts the Great Walls of China which I have on good account can be seen from space (one of a few really) Stonehenge the Hagia Sophia Petra Taj Mahal the Panama canal Machu Picchu
The waters rivers lakes. For the environment. For..the dodo. Does not have to memorable so stop waiting for the approval of your peers.
and blocking up waterways it's not just altering the lay of the land; it's out there combating climate change a few carbon emissions at a time.
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
and sea lice devoured them. Then in 2006 Anderson began conducting research with Venus a cabled ocean observatory that broadcasts underwater views of offshore British columbia live over the Internet.
The researchers used a remotely operated vehicle to plunk a pig in view of a camera
which recorded the action as sea life destroyed it. Twenty-two pigs later and with more scheduled for this fall Anderson's team is learning how to tell
but we now know that sea life snipped away enough tissue that the feet fell off on their own.
Two pigs are tethered to an instrument platform to keep sea critters from dragging them out of camera range.
The deep-sea vehicle Ropos (remotely operated platform for ocean sciences) delivers the pigs and their instrument platform to a node and plugs in a webcam and sensors with dexterous arms.
Sea lice mob devours pig from the inside out Sandrine Ceurstemont editor New Scientist TVTHIS article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of Popular Science.
°The top layers of the oceans would freeze over but in an apocalyptic irony that ice would insulate the deep water below
and prevent the oceans from freezing solid for hundreds of thousands of years. Millions of years after that our planet would reach a stable âÂ#Â00°the temperature at which the heat radiating from the planet's core would equal the heat that the Earth radiates into space explains David Stevenson a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of technology.
Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean but a more attractive option might be nuclear-or geothermal-powered habitats.
because the oceans tides are managed no longer by the gravitational pull of the Moon. There will also likely be massive tsunami's as a result of the earthquakes.
since the food chain in rivers/oceans would be disrupted by the end of photosynthesis so even canned tuna/salmon would be used up within a few weeks.
Krakatoa was a great mountain till it erupted with fire and a blast heard thousands of miles away that cast that Great Mountain into the sea.
The sea was full of Bodies from the Tsunamis more than 35000 of them the sea stayed red for weeks. 1884 was a year without a summer as the year 1816 was
Robert H. Mcnaught discovery of this comet was made with one of the more then 10 telescopes on Siding Spring Mountain Top at 3822 ft above sea level Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory it is in New south wales Australia.
THREATEN ANTHRAX OF GENERAL GULF OF TONKIN OF COLIN POWELL AND JOHN KERRY CON'S!
FOR ARAYAN HITLER FJORDS! SO HITLER YOUTHEN BOEHNERTOM FRIEDMAN JESSIE HOLDER! UGANDA BARAC OBAMA PICK fiat& facist.
THREATEN ANTHRAX OF GENERAL GULF OF TONKIN OF COLIN POWELL AND JOHN KERRY CON'S!
FOR ARAYAN HITLER FJORDS! SO HITLER YOUTHEN BOEHNERTOM FRIEDMAN JESSIE HOLDER! UGANDA BARAC OBAMA PICK fiat& facist.
THREATEN ANTHRAX OF GENERAL GULF OF TONKIN OF COLIN POWELL AND JOHN KERRY CON'S!
FOR ARAYAN HITLER FJORDS! SO HITLER YOUTHEN BOEHNERTOM FRIEDMAN JESSIE HOLDER! UGANDA BARAC OBAMA PICK fiat& facist.
THREATEN ANTHRAX OF GENERAL GULF OF TONKIN OF COLIN POWELL AND JOHN KERRY CON'S!
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#In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levelsthe skies do strange things at the NEEM camp a remote ice-drilling
Based on the study of the paleoclimate record in ice cores as well as the former locations of beaches and coral reefs researchers believe that the Eemian temperature increase likely pushed global sea levels as high as eight meters (26
Even if you stabilize temperature by 2100 sea levels will keep rising for many centuries after that says Gavin Schmidt a NASA climate modeler at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies who specializes in paleoclimate data.
The ice sheets will take hundreds of years to fully react to warmer ocean temperatures he says
That meltwater would account for only about two meters of global sea rise according to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Copenhagen who led the NEEM project.
and policy for the years to come it projected that sea levels would rise anywhere between 18 and 59 centimeters by 2100 a range that many scientists saw as a poor estimate based on inadequate data.
The last report kind of punting on the whole sea level thing has been the driver of an enormous amount of effort in ice-sheet modeling says Schmidt.
and cooling and oceans rise and fall as water gets locked up in ice sheets then melts.
and the sea level rise gets a move on I would like to have a beach front property.
and all the other cities surrounding the Great lakes. If you cut down trees and sequester the wood (carbon) there will be NO release of CO2.
The ocean is accumulating it at a faster rate than the land. Btw we've seen these stretches of cooling in the past as well
And the suggestion that the oceans are still trapping more heat and warming while the surface hasn't warmed for the last 15 years doesn't hold water pardon the pun.
There is no evidence that the oceans are trapping any heat in fact it appears they are losing heat:
http://wattsupwiththat. com/2011/01/06/new-paper-on-argo-data-trenberths-ocean-heat-still-missing/@Frosttty:
and ocean temps from 1880 to present and the temperature has lined flat (and slightly declined) since just before 2000.
because this is not the hottest the Earth has ever been. www. ncdc. noaa. gov/sotc/service/global/global-land-ocean-mntp-anom/201201-201212. pngpicking out 2005
The lack of oxygen at the bottom of the lake means that this specimen is remarkably complete and well-preserved.
Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago this fossil is the oldest primate fossil beating the previous record-holders--including Darwinius from Messel in Germany and Notharctus from the Bridger Basin in Wyoming
Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years agoi'm really curious to know how they ascertained the beady-eyed and roughly 55 million years ago parts.
The greenhouse effect) means once the planet gets warmer and warmer then the oceans begin to evaporate...
You can get to a situation where the oceans begin to boil and the planet becomes so hot that the ocean ends up in the atmosphere.
And that happened to Venus...Hansen's research at NASA focused initially on studying the atmosphere of Venus
No runaway greenhouse effect no massive increase in sea levels. You see based on observations of the relationship of CO2
http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/sotc/service/global/global-land-ocean-mntp-anom/201101-201112. png2000 years 10 proxy reconstructions:
#U s. Has depleted Two Lake eries'Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900over the last century the U s. has depleted enough of its underground freshwater supply to fill Lake erie twice according to a new study from the U s. Geological Survey.
Here's another way to understand how much water we've used. Just between 2000 and 2008 the latest period in the study and the period of fastest depletion Americans brought enough water aboveground to contribute to 2 percent of worldwide ocean level rise in that time.
We think it's serious Leonard Konikow the U s. Geological Survey hydrologist who performed the study tells Popular Science.
They can also suck dry springs wetlands and other surface water features Konikow wrote in a report the survey published yesterday.
Nevertheless those two Lake eries'worth of water refers to how much net groundwater the U s. has lost as people are taking it out much faster than it's going in.
'I believe in 50 years more of less farming and industrial use that has consumed the lakes reservoir and aquifers.
@Wonder I believe in 50 years more of less farming and industrial use that has consumed the lakes reservoir and aquifers.
Thanks to human activity there has been an amount of freshwater equal to the volume of 2 Lake eries
in the earth's lakes and rivers has dried up. Yet strangely the earth's sea levels have not risen enough to account for all of this lost freshwater.
So just where has gone it if the claims of global warmists are to be believed?@@Riff Raff*LOL*How do YOU know the seas haven't risen accordingly?
Are you a scientist who studies these things? Water scarcity and climate change/global warming are in their infancy.
Rockets need to scream through the stratosphere to the point 62 miles above the sea level where space is said conventionally to begin.
and take off from a carrier at open sea and has the radar signature of a mosquito.
Any primate living in say the Great lakes region simply went extinct unable to cope with the new Wisconsin winters.
There's a breeding colony of 3500 rhesus monkeys on a SC sea island. They're owned by the NIH
--i disagree--at one time there werent any massive oceans there must have been large seas between the continents---during the cooling period of earths formation steam was settled developing
which in the gaps between the continents causing water to develop in the gaps causing seas to develop
so millions of years ago the oceans hadnt been developed yet only these seas from from
and cross the world travelling around the sea between africa and north america coming to our part of
the world. the oceans were formed from the 4 glaciation periods that came about. during each glaciation period the gaps between the continents were getting filled up with water from the melted ice on top of the world from a gigantic block of ice many thousands
and by the time the last glaciation period ended the oceans had formed fully . but before thenprimates just migrated from africa to here walking around the sea. even camels were here. there bones have been found in tucsonarizona;
they migrated also travelling around the sea. in south america there are drawings on cliffs of animals that existed in africa
and apparently they migated from africa also travelling around the sea. there could have been two seas-one in the northern hemisphere
and one in the southern hemisphereand the animals leaving africa for south america could have travelled around a sea in the southern hemisphere. mr. george-i forgot to mention that
when the primates came to the united states they discovered there werent bananas here so they didnt stay
Over the past few decades the largest lake in the middle East Iran's Lake Urmia has been drying up:
We could also put more lakes around the USA on mountains for farming and as the water is used for farms the electricity can be stored
The lakes can be a type of energy reserve for windmills solar panels any type of solar generating plant.
This pipeline which would bring oil from Canada's tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast needs a presidential permit to move forward.
Sea levels are rising. Storms are becoming more severe. Really Popsci???Can we just report science and not some Greeie Leftist propaganda??
About 85%of the oxygen comes from the oceans. Every time you throw away a napkin
For example trash in the ocean is not the same argument when addressing manmade climate change.
We understand how oceans absorb the CO2 and acidify. We understand that global warming is creating thermal expansion of our oceans.
These things are facts. Oh but it's not us doing it. We have to be arrogant to think we could affect our big ol'planet.
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