Sentences with phrase «deep seabed»

As it happens, the extra heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap.

There was an eruption of assertions in recent days that the increasing summer retreats and thinning of Arctic Ocean sea ice might be a result not of atmospheric warming but instead all the heat from the recent discovered volcanoes peppering the Gakkel Ridge, one of the seams in the deep seabed at the top of the world.

She came to rest on her port side on the 42m deep seabed while the starboard side lies at 18m.

Posing the greatest direct, imminent, physical threat are fishing practices (the most destructive being deep - sea bottom trawling) and deep seabed mining.

Based on radiometric dating and geochemical isotope analysis, Czaja characterizes his fossils as having formed in this early Vaalbara supercontinent in an ancient deep seabed containing sulfate from continental rock.

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the deep seabed is legally a part of the «common heritage of humankind,» meaning that it belongs to each and every human on the planet.

«Managing mining of the deep seabed: Contracts are being granted, but protections are lagging.»

Scientists travel the oceans and drill into the deepest seabeds to collect such data.

For instance, researchers still don't completely understand the role of aerosols in the atmosphere, the variable effects of clouds at different heights, and the influence of feedback mechanisms such as the changing reflectivity of the Earth's surface and the release of gases from permafrost or deep seabeds.

For all the technological wizardry that has been suggested — from injecting carbon dioxide into deep seabeds to creating a sunshade by shooting sulfur out of man - made volcanoes — there is a simple, obvious, and immediately available solution: We can put the carbon back to work making food to nourish our growing population.

Not exact matches

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

In 2002, Parkes had found prokaryotes at 842 metres beneath the seabed, the previous record, and it seems likely he will be finding life deeper yet in years to come.

We know that billions of microorganisms inhabit the earth, the underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, and even the deep nether regions of Earth's crust, far beneath the seabed.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

According to the ECO2 consortium, additional targeted studies have to be conducted if formation water or gas seeps and if pockmarks with deep roots reaching into the storage formation occur at the seabed.

One possible measure against steadily increasing greenhouse gases is known as CCS (carbon capture and storage): Here, the carbon dioxide is captured, preferably directly at the power plant, and subsequently stored deep in the ground or beneath the seabed.

The paper is intended to inform upcoming discussions by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) that will set the groundwork for future deep - sea environmental protection and mining regulations.

It provides scientists worldwide with the basis for further investigations to see how much ore is actually on and in the seabed, and whether or not deep - sea mining on a large scale could ever become worthwhile.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

Water salinity near the seabed is close to 25 ‰ in parts and over 20 ‰ in all of the deeps areas, whereas the level last winter was 15 ‰ or less.

In the Gulf of Finland, the phosphate phosphorus content of the surface layer has increased from last winter due to the phosphate that was released from the seabed and carried to the deep water from the main basin and from the Gulf's own seabed during last spring, summer and early autumn, and then mixed with the upper water layers due to storms.

The Exeter and Greenpeace research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place in the deep sea.

To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

An analysis of sediment from 17 seabed sites — from European estuaries to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the deep Atlantic Ocean — found that the bathyal region of the Rockall Trough has more species than any other area so far measured.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

Spanning both the deep - seabed area and continental shelves within national jurisdiction, the deep sea is the most difficult area on Earth to access and one of the hardest to manage.

This 15 - metre - deep salt lake is caused by methane, given off by rotting matter on the seabed.

Researchers have found apparent remnants of an extraterrestrial impact some 55 million years ago, in cores from three locations in southern New Jersey, and in a deep - seabed core off Bermuda.

In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

It comes from an ancient seabed deep beneath Central Utah that has been protected from pollutants for millions of years.

But when their worst fears are realized and the cage breaks away from their boat, they find themselves plummeting to the bottom of the seabed, too deep to radio for help without making themselves vulnerable to the savage sharks, their oxygen supplies rapidly dwindling.

I could see all the way to its sandy seabed and even make out the schools of tiny fish and deep drifting weed.

At 40m deep, you will see thousands of nudibranchs scattered all over the seabed as far as you can see; this, together with large schools of fish creating magnificent patterns, makes for an incredible diving experience.

Get up close to these graceful predators and watch their feeding session on the seabed and admire their powerful presence of the deep, with a small group of fellow divers.

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The deep - sea engineering experts and other specialists assembled on June 1 in Washington by the filmmaker James Cameron have issued recommendations (pdf file) for stanching the gulf gusher, undertaking an independent forensic examination of the rig wreckage and devising a fast - response system to get deep - diving submersibles to any future seabed disaster.

On the other, however, the big recent summer retreats of the floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean have created new opportunities, not just to chart possible shipping routes, but to expand surveys of the seabed that might someday lead to deep - ocean Arctic oil and gas drilling.

In a 20 - minute phone conversation on Friday, the film director described the meeting of deep - sea minds, which took place on Tuesday and has resulted in a memo, signed by the participants, that he provided to the Coast Guard and other agencies overseeing BP's efforts to stanch the seabed gusher.

I had a fascinating and fruitful chat with Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers and Braddock Linsley of Columbia University — two authors of an important new Science paper extracting 10,000 years of temperature changes in fairly deep Pacific Ocean waters from fossil plankton buried in the seabed off Indonesia.

As Bill Broad reported in The Times in June, the gulf seabed is home to communities of organisms that thrive on petrochemical seeps and scientists are split on whether deep drifting oil from the Macondo well poses a significant environmental risk.

One could well be the way it chose the basic design of the well — not just the infamous failed blowout preventer on the top, but the entire system from the seabed to the oil source deep below.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

Any methane released from under retreating ice sheets is more likely to find its way into the atmosphere than methane released from deep - sea methane hydrates, because the methane - consuming seabed sediments and the overlying sea water are absent in Antarctica.

Buried deep in seabed sediments off east Africa, scientists have uncovered a 24 - million - year record of vegetation trends in the region where humans evolved.

Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available in the adjacent bay and enhanced sensitivity of ice - shelf melting to water temperatures at intermediate depth, as a seabed ridge blocks the deepest and warmest waters from reaching the thickest ice.

Made up of five 6MW Siemens Gamesa turbines topping 75 - metre - long steel spar - buoy foundations moored to the seabed in 100 metres of water, the project — formerly known as Buchan Deep — will produce enough power for some 20,000 households from its site 24 km off Peterhead.