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Greenpeace Launches Investigation Into Radiation Impacts of Fukushima Disaster on Pacific Ocean
2016-02-26 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Greenpeace Japan today announced it is conducting an underwater investigation into radiation contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The survey will be conducted from a Japanese research vessel using a one of a kind Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), fitted with sensitive gamma radiation spectrometer and sediment sampler. On the opening day of the investigation, Mr Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister of Japan and leader at the time of the nuclear accident,...
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Ocean acidification already taking toll on coral reef growth
2016-02-26 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: Of particular concern are losses of older corals, which release more eggs and sperm during reproduction than young ones, and bleaching in nurseries of corals established to replace those that die off. The findings were published in the science journal Nature. Can we administer a similar procedure to save the reefs globally? Qld Senator Larissa Waters is the Australian Greens Deputy Leader and climate change spokesperson. But even if the experiments underlying the study did exactly that,...
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'Ice age blob' of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland
2016-02-19 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research published in Scientific Reports in February indicates that a warm ocean surface water prevailed during the last ice age, sandwiched between two major ice sheets just south of Greenland. Extreme climate changes in the past Ice core records show that Greenland went through 25 extreme and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age some 20,000 to 70,000 years ago. In less than 50 years the air temperatures over Greenland could increase by 10 to 15 °C. However the warm periods were...
New data suggests Charon was fractured by massive, subsurface ocean
2016-02-19 22:12:00| Extremetech
Pluto's moon Charon is broken and fractured and now we think we know why. A subsurface ocean that existed when the moon was young may have frozen later, deforming the surface of the planet.
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Are ice streams contributing to the rise of ocean levels?
2016-02-18 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A study released Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that the recent thinning behavior of ice streams in some of the world's largest glaciers may not point to as grim a climate scenario as was once thought. Ice streams, or fast-moving regions of massive ice sheets glaciers larger than 19,000 square miles have become a cause for concern in recent years as their retreat in the world's only major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic has been linked to sea level rise. But the new study may...
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