Ocean current shutdown may take place more slowly than previously believed

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has suggested that there may be plenty of oxygen available in the global ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa to support life, in fact, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated. The global ocean on Europa contains about twice the liquid water of all the Earth's oceans combined.

September 26th, 2009 LONDON - A team of biologists, using satellite tags, has revealed the migration secrets of eels, as to where they go and what they do after leaving their rivers. The European eel's migration to the Sargasso Sea to spawn is one of nature's great unsolved mysteries.

September 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Melting permafrost in arctic regions, triggered by global warming, will release underground methane. Once released, methane would speed up global warming by trapping the earths heat radiation about 20 times more efficiently than the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

September 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists, using space-based lasers on a NASA satellite have created the most comprehensive inventory of lakes that actively drain or fill under Antarctica's ice, which has revealed a continental plumbing system that is more dynamic than previously thought. "Even though Antarctica's ice sheet looks static, the more we watch it, the more we see there is activity going on there all the time," said Benjamin Smith of the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study.

August 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists have determined that depletion in the ozone layer is reducing the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake of the Southern Ocean. Most current models predict that the strength of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink should increase as atmospheric CO2 rises, but observations show that this has not been the case.

August 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has determined that seasonal winds might drive current variability in the northern Indian Ocean. The research was carried out by J.

August 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - Tasmania's east coast is recording its highest-ever winter water temperatures of more than 13 degrees Celsius, which is up to 1.5 degrees C above normal, due to a strengthening of an ocean current originating north of Australia. The current in question is the Leeuwin Current, which is significantly extending around the southern tip of Tasmania and reaching as far north as St Helens.

August 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A climate model has predicted that global warming, combined with nuclear waste, may make the Arctic Ocean a polluted soup by the year 2070. According to a report in New Scientist, Ola Johannessen, director of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway, and his colleagues, developed the model.

July 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula. he sheer number of knots - more than have ever been seen before - looks like a massive fireworks display in space.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A new research by European scientists has provided evidence that an enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is fed by a salty ocean, a discovery that may have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. The Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus, on its exploration of the giant ringed planet in 2005.

May 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have launched a first global study on the health and productivity of ocean plants using a unique signal detected by US space agency NASA's Aqua satellite. Ocean scientists can now remotely measure the amount of fluorescent red light emitted by phytoplankton and assess how efficiently these microscopic plants turn sunlight and nutrients into food through photosynthesis.

May 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has suggested that the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada. The researchers suggest that moderate to high rates of ice melt from Greenland may shift ocean circulation by about 2100, causing sea levels off the northeast coast of North America to rise by about 30 to 51 centimeters (12 to 20 inches) more than other coastal areas.

April 30th, 2009 Obama: Change comes slowly in WashingtonWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he's sobered by how slowly changes come in Washington. During a prime-time news conference Wednesday marking his first 100 days in office, the president said even as the country struggles through a crippling recession, he has witnessed political posturing and bickering.

March 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Reduced presence of airborne dust and volcanic emissions over the past 30 years are linked with recent Atlantic Ocean warming and has a link to increasing number of hurricanes, according to a new study. For example, the ocean temperature difference between 1994, a quiet hurricane year, and 2005's record-breaking year of storms, was just one degree Fahrenheit.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - New data has emerged that provides evidence in support of the hypothesis that the Agulhas Current, in the southern hemisphere, may stabilise or destabilise climate in Europe. The data was presented by scientist Martinez-Mendez, in her PhD thesis titled "Surface and Deep Circulation off South Africa: Agulhas Leakage Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last 345 kyr".