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China's Thinning Margins Has Marubeni Betting on U.S. for Growth
2013-07-18 00:12:38| Food - Topix.net
China's economic slowdown could be worse than official forecasts and a recovery may not come before 2014, according to the chairman of Marubeni Corp. , Japan's biggest power and agriculture trading company.
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Thinning Ice Is Turning Arctic into an Algae Hotspot
2013-02-14 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Shrinking, thinning Arctic sea ice appears to be accelerating the growth of algae in polar waters, a new study finds, a development that could alter the region's ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. Scientists cruising central Arctic waters last summer aboard the research ship Polarstern were stunned to discover dense, shaggy deposits of the algae Melosira arctica clinging to the bottom of sea ice. The green color of water in a melt pond atop Arctic sea ice hints at the riotous growth...
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Ocean Circulation Disrupted By A Thinning Antarctic Ozone Layer
2013-02-01 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: The impact of the depleting Antarctic ozone layer on both the shifting direction of the Southern Hemispheres jet stream and the way in which the waters of the nearby southern oceans mix together is the topic of research published in this weeks edition of the journal Science. In one study, a team of researchers led by earth scientist Darryn W. Waugh of Johns Hopkins University wrote that the hole in the regions ozone layer has caused subtropical intermediate waters to become younger and upwelling,...
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Scientist: Ozone thinning has changed ocean circulation
2013-01-31 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Phil Sneiderman prs@jhu.edu 443-287-9960 Johns Hopkins University According to a Johns Hopkins earth scientist, the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has caused changes in the way that waters in those southern oceans mix - a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and eventually could have an impact on glo…
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