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Tracking Nitrogen's Elusive Trail in the Ocean
The 'isotope effect' offers a new way to follow where nitrogen goes
Fertilizers have leaked into the oceans, loading coastal waters with excess
nitrogen and possibly leading to another greenhouse
gas to watch: nitrous oxide. Any attempt to restore the nitrogen balance on
our planet requires more understanding of how nitrogen moves through the
environment.
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Study Links Swings in North Atlantic Oscillation Variability to Climate Warming
Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral,
researchers have
created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term
behavior of one of the most important drivers of climate fluctuations
in the North Atlantic.
Oceanus Magazine
What Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio.
News Release
Surprising Return of North Atlantic Circulation Pump
Sea ice decline may actually have aided ocean overturning.
Oceanus Magazine
A Tale of Two Oceans, and the Monsoons
Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoons.
Oceanus Magazine
A Most Ingenious Paradoxical Plankton
How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche?
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