Satellites to detect stranded whales from space
October 20, 2019 21:16 ISTIt is hoped that in the future the technique will lead to real-time information as stranding events happen.
It is hoped that in the future the technique will lead to real-time information as stranding events happen.
"Our data demonstrate for the first time that ocean water exposure can alter the diversity and composition of the human skin microbiome," said Marisa Chattman Nielsen, a PhD student at the University of California, Irvine in the US.
The government was in the process of formulating the "deep ocean mission" programme, encompassing various aspects of oceans in an integrated framework, said Harsh Vardhan, here on Tuesday, after taking the charge of Earth Sciences Ministry.
The UNGA "decides that the overarching theme of the conference shall be "scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions."
Organisms at the ocean surface have incorporated this "bomb carbon" into the molecules that make up their bodies since the late 1950s.
The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, found that extreme storms -- those producing at least 3 millimetres of rain per hour over a 25-kilometre area -- formed when the sea surface temperature was higher than about 28 degrees Celsius.
Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess solar energy trapped by greenhouse gases accumulates in the world's oceans.
Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess solar energy trapped by greenhouse gases accumulates in the world's oceans.
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The smoke-rings were spotted by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time and place.
A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, offering a long lived habitable zone for microbial life, suggests a new data from the Cassini mission. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus,
The sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean this summer is at its second lowest ever recorded, a report has found. Scientists have found that the ice levels have plummeted to the minimum extent of
Warming oceans are not only spreading diseases among animals, humans and marine lives but also hampering food security in many countries. A recent study has red-flagged change in weather patterns due to warming of
Elephant seals could help in observing changes in the circulation of the world's oceans, findings of latest research has revealed. The international researchers, led by the University of Tasmania's Dr Guy Williams, used sensors
Alien hunters believe that there was a primitive ocean on Mars that had more water than the Arctic Sea. A broken seashell spotted on the surface further indicates that life once inhabited the ancient sea.
LOS ANGELES: Two small planes collided in midair Friday and plunged into the ocean off of Los Angeles harbor. There was no immediate word of any survivors, authorities said.The planes collided at around 3:30 p.m.
Washington: There is a vast water reservoir beneath the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus - now dubbed as “global ocean” - that is behind the fine spray of water vapour and icy particles NASA's
Panaji: Indian scientists along with their Bangladeshi counterparts will study the waters in Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Bangladesh which they claimed will be the "first ever" study in the region. Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography
Kuala Lumpur: In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is
Sydney: England cricket team has all the reasons in the world to feel devastated and humiliated after they were white washed in Ashes eries by Australia but their supposedly star batsman Kevin Pietersen chose to
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