ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:11 PM PST Geoscientists have revealed new discoveries about Earth’s development, following a major international expedition that recovered the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean. Antarctic fjords are …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles Posted: 08 Sep 2013 10:57 AM PDT New research shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus. Plankton plays an important role in the ocean’s carbon cycle by removing half of …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News :Catastrophic loss of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Catastrophic loss of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands When it rains these days, does it pour? Has the weather become stormier as the climate warms? Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world’s deepest oceanic trench Catastrophic …

Generating ‘green’ electricity: Waste heat converted to electricity using new alloy

kristyGreentech

Alternative Energy ——————————————————————————– Generating ‘green’ electricity: Waste heat converted to electricity using new alloy EADS Announces VoltAir Electric Airline Concept It may contaminate your well water and emit more emissions than expected, but is shale gas business also a Ponzi scheme? Tapping the SPR: The Root of Dysfunctional Energy Policies …