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The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
WEBFeb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
The Effect of Coral Bleaching Events in the Great Barrier Reef
WEBMay 31, 2019 · When the algae leave, the remaining coral becomes a stark white color in a process known as bleaching. Bleached coral is not dead; it can recover. However, without the algae, the ecosystem is much ...
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Plankton that are plants, known as phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. As such, climate ...
Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus’s Most Basic Facts - Eos
WEBJun 1, 2021 · They found that the 15-year average length of day on Venus is 243.0226 Earth days (243 days, 32 minutes, and 30 seconds). What’s more, the team discovered that their individual measurements of ...
The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
WEBApr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor - Eos
WEBMay 24, 2017 · The grid defines water depth with 1.4 billion 12 × 12 meter cells and is available in feet and meters. BOEM grid coverage is limited to the area defined by rainbow colors. Shaded relief is ...
Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
WEBJul 15, 2021 · A Scientific Riddle. In 1886, Dr. G. Hartwig illustrated ball lightning arriving through a chimney. Credit: Dr. G. Hartwig/ NOAA, CC BY 2.0. Eyewitness accounts describe hovering balls of light ...
Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search
WEBMar 6, 2017 · The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on 8 March 2014 led to a deep-ocean search effort of unprecedented scale and detail. Between June 2014 and June 2016, geophysical survey ...
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
WEBMay 17, 2021 · The second phase, SK-2, was completed in 2014–2018 in Anda County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. SK-2 drilled to a depth of 7,018 meters, the deepest ever by an ICDP project at the time ...