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Climate change affecting deepest depths of Antarctic ocean, study finds
2014-03-04 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The impacts of climate change are being felt at even the deepest depths of the Antarctic ocean, a new study has found, in a discovery that may explain a 40 year old mystery. In the mid-1970s, the first satellite images to be studied of Antarctica during the polar winter discovered a strange phenomenon. In the Weddell Sea, researchers noticed a huge ice-free region known as a polynia that remained open for three winters. Scientists found that the polynia was kept open by warm waters that...
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Drought-plagued California tries drink ocean (hold the salt)
2014-03-04 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Despite the pugnacious storms that had California on the ropes this past weekend, the state is still in the middle of a record-making drought. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is well under half its usual level for this time of year, and theres almost certainly no way to catch up this late in the season. Enter the ongoing construction of 17 desalination plants across the state. A $1 billion plant being built in Carlsbad, Calif., expected to be ready by 2016, will pump 50 million gallons...
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Global Warming Felt to Deepest Reaches of Ocean
2014-03-03 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newswise: In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before it closed. Subsequent research showed that the opening was maintained as relatively warm waters churned upward from kilometres below the oceans surface and released heat from the oceans deepest reaches. But the polynya -- which was the size of New Zealand --...
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BOEM reveals final environmental study for oil and gas exploration in Atlantic Ocean
2014-03-03 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has revealed a final environmental review of geological and geophysical (G&G) survey activities on the effects of geological and geophysical activities to explore energy resources along the Atlantic seaboa
Climate change is preventing ocean heat from escaping in Antarctica: McGill study
2014-03-02 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A new discovery by scientists at McGill University suggests that heat from the depths of the ocean is being trapped under the Antarctic ice shelf -- all the result of climate change. In the 1970s, researchers in Antarctica observed an open body of water the size of New Zealand within an ice pack in the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea. Until now, they believed the phenomenon, known as the Weddell polynya, to be a rare occurrence. But researchers at McGill say that the polynya in Antarctica has...
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