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科学家展开全球海域水温调查
12-01-31 Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond their known boundaries. The hotspots have f...
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海洋哺乳动物如何减压
11-12-22 Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard（危险） of decompression sickness (DCS) or the bends. As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and,...
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美科学家发明精密机器水母
11-11-23 Engineers at Virginia Polytechnic（工业学院） Institute and State University (VirginiaTech) have developed a robot that mimics the graceful motions of jellyfish（水母，海蜇） so precisely that it has been named Robojelly. Developed for the U.S. Offi...
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加纳利岛发现保存最好的山崩
11-10-10 Volcanologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous（巨大的，怪异的） landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of Tenerife. Seven hundred...
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Whose Father was the Stronger
11-10-09 Will and Bill were quarrelling（争吵） about whose father was the stronger. Will said, Well, you know the Pacific Ocean? My father's the one who dug the hole for it. Bill wasn't impressed, Well, that's nothing. You know the Dead Sea? My father's the...
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海洋“边缘地区”的细菌如何摄取CO2
11-09-02 Understanding the flow and processing of carbon in the world's oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth's surface, is central to understanding global climate cycles, with many questions remaining unanswered. Between 200 and 1,000 meters below the oce...
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海洋酸化严重影响贝类种群
11-07-15 Since the birth of the industrial revolution, ocean pH has dropped by 0.1 units. That might not sound like much until you realise that a 0.1 unit fall is a 30% increase in acidity. And, with predictions that ocean pH will continue plummeting（垂直落...
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气候变化影响海洋吸收CO2的能力
11-07-11 How deep is the ocean's capacity to buffer（缓冲） against climate change? As one of the planet's largest single carbon absorbers, the ocean takes up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and its associ...
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What the Mapmaker Knows
11-07-07 What the Mapmaker Knows Mary Jo Bang O is the ocean and t the consequence of time at the edge of a landscape of dots plotted into the plane with a constant scale. Any place can be located and later divided by cultural and social data and sketched on...
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解密椰子的传播历史
11-06-26 The coconut (the fruit of the palm Cocos nucifera) is the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom; in one neat package it provides a high-calorie food, potable water（饮用水） , fiber that can be spun（纺，旋转） into rope, and a hard shell that can b...
