Sentences with phrase «indian ocean»

However, changes to the sink in the Pacific and Indian Ocean subtropical regions will be too low - resolution to detect before at least 2050.

Lowest recorded population: 10 On the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean lives the rarest pigeon in the world.

But millions of years ago the continents began to shift, and Madagascar drifted out to sea toward its present - day location in the Indian Ocean, some 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa.

Chris Perry, Professor of Geography in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, and his team measured changes to 28 reefs across the Chagos Archipelago, the remote British Indian Ocean Territory 300 miles south of the Maldives, that lost 90 per cent of its coral cover during 1998, when sea temperatures rose to unprecedented levels.

Farther north, in the southern Indian Ocean, Australia runs regular patrols around Heard Island, France patrols the Kerguelen Islands, and South Africa has a marine - protected area around its Prince Edward Islands, which are right along the northern boundary of the treaty area.

One such site is Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean, which been continuously monitored since 1987.

The U.S. Air Force tracks the satellites from Hawaii, Colorado Springs, and the various islands of Ascension in the South Atlantic, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and Kwajalein in the Pacific.

While it may be improbable that a colony of spiders survived a journey of 10,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean, that is the most likely explanation for how the trapdoor spiders got to Kangaroo Island, the researchers conclude.

Duncan also analysed data from the other, off Diego Garcia island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but found nothing.

Now comes evidence that tiny, sedentary trapdoor spiders made such a journey millions of years ago, taking them from Africa all the way across the Indian Ocean to Australia.

Harri Kallio built life - size three - foot - tall models of the extinct dodo and set them down in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island from which they were driven to extinction three centuries ago.

Slows Coastal Erosion Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, a study led by Danish ecologist Finn Danielsen reported that coastal areas flush with mangrove trees were markedly less damaged than those without.

A paper published last October in Nature reported the large 2004 seismic events near the Indonesian island Sumatra that spurred the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami had an impact on the San Andreas fault in California.

Sensitive microphones on the ocean floor off Australia picked up a distinctive signal at about the time that the Boeing 777 aeroplane is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean.

IN 1982, an Australian spy plane snapped photographs of a miniature space shuttle being fished out of the Indian Ocean by a Soviet ship.

South Africa has teamed with eight other countries in Africa and the Indian Ocean to get the required reach.

Becker notes the crater coincides in age with the breakup of Gondwanaland, the opening of the Indian Ocean, and extreme volcanism across the Siberian plains — plus, of course, the massive extinction.

«We now know that 130,000 years ago, the Indian Ocean monsoons pushed farther north, and Arabia became grassland,» says Marks, who thinks the shifting climate opened new territory for human exploration.

The flying foxes on Pemba Island in the Indian Ocean were reduced to just a few individuals in the 1980s, but the population recovered to more than 20,000 over the course of 20 years of conservation efforts.

The effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 are only too well known: It knocked the hell out of Aceh Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, leveling buildings, scattering palm trees, and wiping out entire villages.

Everything changed after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.

December 21 The Impossible: Set amid one of the worst natural disasters in history, this film focuses on a family's struggle to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

The same was true of Indian Ocean Islands.

At Pinnacle Point, a coastal site in South Africa that borders the Indian Ocean, Arizona State University archaeologist Curtis Marean and his colleagues found table scraps from humans» feasting 164,000 years ago.

Dr Raby says: «After the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean, much of the world's efforts concentrated on tsunami early warning and evacuation.

Now, a drilling expedition under way in the Indian Ocean hopes to uncover the secrets of large underwater earthquakes that can trigger such tsunamis.

«Data on blue whales off California helps protect their distant relatives: Research identifies blue whale habitat in the Northern Indian Ocean.»

Both can be blamed on El Niño's Indian Ocean sibling.

In 2004, at a conference of geologists, astronomers, and archaeologists, Masse outlined his evidence for a world - ravaging impact in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Similarly, many dragonflies attempt to migrate 3,500 kilometers or more across the Indian Ocean from India to east Africa and back each year, breeding in temporary ponds created by monsoon rains.

In addition to the known accumulation of plastic waste in the North Pacific, there are similar accumulations in the central North Atlantic, the South Pacific, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.

In the early 1980s, he read, an Australian pilot spotted something unusual floating in the Indian Ocean.

Abrams says the finding that the Indian Ocean temperature gradient will get steeper — with the Arabian side warming faster — is a surprise.

The Northern Indian Ocean and its inhabitants have not been surveyed to the same extent as the eastern Pacific Ocean, and much of the information about whale distributions comes from Soviet whaling several decades ago.

She had recently moved to the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, which collaborates closely with Suess's group, to learn a couple of fundamental techniques of molecular ecology she needed to complete her own research project in the Indian Ocean.

Masse believes that he has uncovered evidence that a gigantic comet crashed into the Indian Ocean several thousand years ago and nearly wiped out all life on the planet.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

The model suggests that the distribution of blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean may shift seasonally, following their food as monsoon climate patterns alter the most productive habitat.

The models then identified similar upwelling and feeding regions in the Northern Indian Ocean that are also likely to be important habitat for the endangered species.

But they know far less about blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean, where ships strike and kill some of the largest animals on Earth.

The researchers concluded that the Indian Ocean lineage of chikungunya virus that has spread to the Indian Ocean Basin, Southeast Asia, Oceania and Europe continues to mutate and adapt to develop higher efficiency for transmission by the Asian tiger mosquito.

House shrews (Suncus murinus) are small mouse - like mammals that are widely distributed in southern parts of Asia, the islands of the western Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa.

Its influence stretches into North America, where it often brings heavy rains, across the Indian Ocean to Africa, and to northeast Brazil, where it brings drought.

The residents of India and Sri Lanka had almost two hours to move to higher ground after seismographs first registered the quake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, but because those regions lacked a warning system, tens of thousands perished.

A few days after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in December, a semianonymous user named Camiseta created a compilation of home video recordings of the disaster.

Speed is of the essence: A magnitude - 8.7 sibling quake followed the 2004 Indian Ocean megaquake by 3 months.

But what if they have been destroyed or sunk to unreachable depths of the southern Indian Ocean?

And after an intense field campaign in the Indian Ocean involving dozens of nations, researchers are starting to answer some of the most fundamental questions of all: Why does the MJO exist, and how does it form?

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

How the marine protected area (MPA) in the British Indian Ocean Territory came about reads like the makings of a...