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Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed
2013-03-17 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, they found. Global marine temperature fluctuations could mean that tiny Prochlorococcus and other microbes digest double the carbon previously calculated. Carbon dioxide is the leading driver of disruptive climate change. In...
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UK firm joins ocean mineral rush
2013-03-14 08:13:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A new and controversial frontier in mining is opening up as a British firm joins a growing rush to exploit minerals in the depths of the oceans.
Large plastic bags in unique experiment to study ocean acidification
2013-03-13 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: To study the effects of ocean acidification, ten huge plastic containers called mesocosms are placed in the Gullmar Fjord in Sweden. The project is unique: mesocosms of this size have never been used for such a long period of time. The experiment is part of a worldwide research project, and includes researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This is the largest and longest experiment on the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems that have been carried out to this date. A team...
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Greenland adds nutrient to ocean in side-effect of thaw - study
2013-03-11 08:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A melt of Greenland's ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the Atlantic Ocean where it might aid marine life in a rare positive side-effect of climate change, a study showed on Sunday. Greenland's thaw, which is raising world sea levels, is also adding about 300,000 tonnes of iron a year to the North Atlantic, based on projections from the muddy melt water of three glaciers in the southwest, it said. That is similar to the amount of iron blown to the region in dust by winds....
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Ocean Installer secures umbilical installation contract for Bittern field
2013-03-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Norway-based Ocean Installer has won a contract from Shell UK to undertake umbilical installation at the Bittern field in the North Sea.
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