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Methane-eating Microbes Can Use Iron And Manganese Oxides To 'Breathe'

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:48:18 PDT

Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of...

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'Hotspots' Of Human Impact On Coastal Areas Ranked

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:08 PDT

Coastal marine ecosystems are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara who have recently published a study in the Journal of Conservation...

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Saharan Dust Storms Linked To Enigmatic Fertilizer Plankton In Ocean

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:11:50 PDT

The tropical Atlantic waters around Cape Verde are very low in plant nutrients. Nitrogen is in especially short supply and limits the growth of the phytoplankton, the tiny plants that are at the...

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:09:49 PDT

Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on...

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Protecting Polar Bears With New Tracking Methods

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:07:26 PDT

A new approach to tracking polar bears, developed by Queen's University researchers, will shed more light on the potentially endangered Arctic animal and help boost the economy of Canada's...

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How Can The World's Fisheries Be Sustainable?

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:50:35 PDT

According to the most recent report on the status of the world's fisheries by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, fisheries supply at least 15% of the animal protein consumed by...

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Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-level Rise

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:48:16 PDT

A team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), along with colleagues from Tübingen (Germany) and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over...

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Mangrove-dependent Animals Globally Threatened

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:46:38 PDT

Substantial numbers of terrestrial vertebrates are restricted to mangrove forests. Many of these specialized species are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of...

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Male Seahorses Like Big Mates

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:19:28 PDT

Male seahorses have a clear agenda when it comes to selecting a mating partner: to increase their reproductive success. By being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have more and...

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Many Antarctic Species Ill Prepared To Cope With Warmer Ocean

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:18:08 PDT

A group of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey have collected individuals from a wide range of species commonly found in Antarctic waters and subjected them to increasing levels of water...

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Blue And Orange Lobsters Surface In Manomet

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:25:41 PDT

A blue lobster and six orange lobsters have surfaced in Manomet. The rare crustaceans were discovered at the Lobster Pound. Jessica Barry, the Pound's shipping and receiving manager, told the Patriot...

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Disappearing Seagrass Threatening Future Of Coastal Ecosystems Globally

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:16:14 PDT

An international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems. The team has...

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Biomedical Research Profits From Exploration Of Deep Sea

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:14:03 PDT

A new study highlights how the exploration of the ocean depths can benefit humankind. This is the story of a voyage of discovery, starting with marine animals that glow, the identification of the...

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Innovative Technology Shatters The Barriers Of Modern Light Microscopy

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:11:38 PDT

Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that are seated several...

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King Crabs Go Deep To Avoid Hot Water

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:21:32 PDT

Researchers from the University of Southampton have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab. The...

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A new subspecies of Blind Cave Fish

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:17:07 PDT

A new subspecies of Blind Cave Fish of the genus Garra (Teleostei:Cyprinidae) from Wadi Al Wurayah pools, Emirate of Fujairah, United ArabEmirates is described. This subspecies is distinguished from...

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Little-known Marine Decomposers Attract The Attention Of Genome Sequencers

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:11:49 PDT

The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) announced today that they will sequence the genomes of four species of labyrinthulomycetes. These little-known marine species were selected for...

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Japanese scientists to breed 'super tuna'

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:09:44 PDT

Tokyo.....Japanese scientists will have bred a new "super-tuna" within a decade that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans. Stocks of...

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Seal's close call with killer whale in Patagonia

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:07:08 PDT

A killer whale, or orca, narrowly missed out on catching a young seal off the coast of Patagonia. An astonishing sequence of images showed the orca emerging from shallow icy waters towards the shore...

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Coalition of Conservation Organizations, Scientists Calls on White House and Congress to Protect Corals

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:42 PDT

The Coral Reef Alliance, Greenpeace USA, WWF, Sierra Club, and SeaWeb are among a large coalition of 44 conservation organizations and more than 100 marine scientists urging the White House and U.S....

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Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:27:56 PDT

New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is...

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HOW KILLER WHALES ARE LIKE PEOPLE

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:48:53 PDT

At a green-chemistry conference at the University of Maryland, last Thursday, filmmaker/diver/marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau described the back story for his latest documentary: Call of the...

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Learn to echolocate at home

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:42:41 PDT

With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to "see" objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do.Ordinary people with no special skills can use tongue clicks to...

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Study: Coastal seagrass increasingly being lost

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:39:06 PDT

Coastal development and declining water quality are threatening seagrasses worldwide, researchers report. A study of coastal grasses around the world shows that 58 percent of the seagrass meadows are...

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Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles

pjebakumarj@yahoo.co.in (Lovely book lilly) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:31:31 PDT

Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication...

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