Topic: Oceanography
Oceans seen as new front to fight climate change
Reuters Environmental Online Report
<div><p>CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Preventing the destruction of marine life, from plankton to seagrasses and mangrove forests, could help offset between 3 to 7 percent of current fossil fuel emissions, a U.N. environment report said on Wednesday.</p><p>The ...
First Darwin, now global warming reaches Galapagos
Reuters Environmental Online Report
<div><p>GALAPAGOS, Ecuador (Reuters) - Climate change could endanger the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islands, and scientists are trying to figure out how to protect vulnerable species such as blue-footed boobies and Galapagos Penguins.</p><p>Some 175 years after the ...
Conditions combined for devastating tsunami
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Type of quake, depth of ocean, location of Samoa all add up to devastating high-speed tsunami</div><div><p>Because of a lethal combination of geology and geography, the people of American Samoa didn't stand much of a ...
Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers, alters marine ecosystems</div><div><p>With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.</p><p>An orange ...
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