Sahara Desert Dust Is Helping Oceans Thrive

mennessä CrNet Oy | loka 25, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis. Iron availability is often a limiting resource in today’s oceans, which means that increasing the flow of iron into them can increase the amount...

Study Finds Highest Prediction of Sea-Level Rise Unlikely

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 22, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

In recent years, the news about Earth’s climate—from raging wildfires and stronger hurricanes to devastating floods and searing heat waves—has provided little good news. A new Dartmouth-led study, however, reports that one of the very worst projections of how high the...

Scientists Find Oceans of Water on Mars. It’s Just Too Deep to Tap

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 14, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Using seismic activity to probe the interior of Mars, geophysicists have found evidence for a large underground reservoir of liquid water — enough to fill oceans on the planet’s surface. The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the...

President von der Leyen signs the High Seas Treaty on behalf of the EU in commitment to unprecedented ocean protection

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 22, 2023 | Kestävän kehityksen tiede- ja tutkimusuutiset

President von der Leyen signed yesterday on behalf of the EU the Treaty for the High Seas, also known as the ‘Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’ (BBNJ) treaty. This landmark treaty agreed in March this year is key to protect the ocean, tackle...

Scientists Can Predict Transfer of Carbon — Including Pollution From Cars — In the Ocean

mennessä CrNet Oy | huhti 5, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

  A USC-led team of international scientists has found that the speed of carbon transfer in the ocean is influenced by the size and type of bacteria that latch onto the particles. The discovery has enabled researchers to develop a computer model for estimating...