12-07-26 How quickly can new species arise? In as little as 6,000 years, according to a study of Australian sea stars. That's unbelievably fast compared to most organisms, said Rick Grosberg, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and coauthor on the...
12-07-20 A new study finds elevated levels of caffeine(咖啡因) at several sites in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon -- though not necessarily where researchers expected. This study is the first to look at caffeine pollution off the Oregon coast...
12-05-15 Will and Bill were quarrelling 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 one w...
12-05-09 The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the north-east Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years. 太平洋东北部海域上漂浮的小塑料片的数量在过去40年间增 加了100倍。 The Scripps team trawled the surface of the ocean...
12-05-09 A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. In 2009 an ambiti...
12-05-02 Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial(赤道的) Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc(肆虐) on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change could cause ocean currents to opera...
12-04-26 An international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica. New techniques have been used to differentiate, for the first time, between...
12-04-12 Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had declined to a level considered by the own...
12-03-27 Compelling(引人注目的) evidence of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea corals will be published online in the Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week beginning March 26. Th...
12-02-03 Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry(海洋测深学) data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ocean mappin...