Black carbon found in the Amazon River reveals recent forest burnings
International study quantified and characterized charcoal and soot produced by incomplete burning of trees and transported by river to the Atlantic.
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Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee’s lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project
Read moreTwo ocean studies look at microscopic diversity and activity across entire planet
Two papers publishing in the journal Cell use samples and data collected during the Tara Oceans Expedition to analyze current
Read moreWhat vision do we have for the deep sea?
New study on the future of the global seafloor
Read moreLehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee’s lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project
Read moreTwo ocean studies look at microscopic diversity and activity across entire planet
Two papers publishing in the journal Cell use samples and data collected during the Tara Oceans Expedition to analyze current
Read moreWhat vision do we have for the deep sea?
New study on the future of the global seafloor
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The Rise of Orpheus
WHOI’s new deep-sea autonomous underwater vehicle moves one step closer to exploring the hadal zone—the deepest region of the ocean—to search for new clues about the limits of life on Earth, and possibly beyond.
Read moreWhale shark hot spot offers new conservation insights
International team of marine scientists complete six-year whale shark study
Read moreLast Arctic ice refuge is disappearing
WASHINGTON–The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic
Read moreNitrous oxide emissions set to rise in the Pacific Ocean
Today’s rising CO2 emissions are changing oceans’ pH levels, making them more acidic. We can already see the harmful effects
Read moreWhale shark hot spot offers new conservation insights
International team of marine scientists complete six-year whale shark study
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