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Salty sea spray affects lifetimes of clouds, researchers find
2015-12-23 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: All over the planet, every day, oceans send plumes of sea spray into the atmosphere. Beyond the poetry of crashing ocean waves, this salt- and carbon-rich spray has a dramatic effect on the formation and duration of clouds. Yes, clouds, which cover 60 percent of Earth's surface at any given time. In a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, online Dec. 21, Colorado State University's Paul DeMott, a senior research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science, says sea...
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Researchers say less Arctic sea ice means more precipitation
2015-12-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A research paper published Monday by U.S. and Canadian scientists says less sea ice in the Arctic has meant more precipitation is falling. Lead author Ben Kopec, of Dartmouth College, says researchers looked at 20 years of precipitation data at sites in the Canadian Arctic and the Greenland Sea. They measured isotope compositions to determine whether moisture originated in the Arctic or from lower latitudes. They found that as sea ice diminished, more precipitation fell and more came from Arctic...
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Scientists discover rare sea snakes, previously thought extinct, off Western Australia
2015-12-21 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: This is a photograph of the rare short nosed sea snake discovered on Ningaloo reef, Western Australia. Credit: Image: Grant Griffin, W.A. Dept. Parks and Wildlife Scientists from James Cook University have discovered …
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Wintershall Norway secures permit to drill well in Barents Sea
2015-12-21 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Wintershall Norway has secured a permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill a wildcat in the Barents Sea using semi-submersible rig Transocean Arctic.
Scolty and Crathes Field Development, North Sea
2015-12-21 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Scolty and Crathes oil fields are located in Blocks 21/8a, 21/12c and 21/13a in the central North Sea sector of the UK continental shelf.
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