Sentences with phrase «seabed now»

Melting glaciers have long been linked to rising sea levels but the melting ice has also added so much water to the world's ocean that the seabed now sinks underneath the increasing weight.

Is the resultant seabed now being above surrounding sea level a demonstration of a fall in sea level?

Not exact matches

A few decades from now, all the equipment needed to process oil may be installed on the seabed.

It is now hoping drilling for oil and gas located under the seabed will boost the Islands» economy.

Signs of stagnant CO2 - rich water have now been discovered 3700 metres beneath the Southern Ocean's seabed, between Antarctica and South Africa.

The huge potential of ocean currents could at last be tapped, thanks to the latest generators now being trialled on the seabed.

It has now been 14 years since the first CO2 was injected into a seabed formation in the North Sea.

«We have now dived on the site using high resolution DIDSON ™ acoustic imaging to examine the ruins on the seabed — a first use of this technology for non-wreck marine archaeology.

In addition to a marine biologist's typical tools — water samplers to measure salinity and temperature, plankton nets — the team's toolbox will hold cameras, coring systems to collect seafloor sediment, and hydroacoustic equipment to map the topography of the now - exposed seabed.

Now that sunlight can penetrate those waters and more food will be available, new creatures will begin to colonize the seabed.

Now he's trawling the seabed for wrecks from the Roman Empire

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

The field study of an international group of researchers headed by Massimiliano Molari from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Katja Guilini from the University of Ghent in Belgium, now published in Science Advances, reveals how leaking CO2 affects the seabed habitat and its inhabitants.

Answers are now provided in a study dealing with the effects of CO2 on the inhabitants of sandy seabeds..»

The oxygen situation of water near the seabed is now very good, although it worsened for a time over the past year in the Bornholm basin following the lesser Baltic inflows that occurred during the winter and spring of 2014.

«As governments prepare to set the rules and the first companies gear up to mine, now is the time to ask whether we just have to accept seabed mining, or should instead decide that the potential damage is just so great that we really need to find less destructive alternatives.»

Now veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, have been filmed picking up coconut halves from the seabed to use as hiding places when they feel threatened.

But the most highly anticipated territorial confrontation — determining control of the Arctic Ocean's seabed — won't play out until a few years from now.

Here and in many other places around the world, we are discovering the remains of human settlements on what is now the seabed.

THE flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may now have been stemmed, but there is an altogether bigger problem lurking on the seabed, a legacy of the greatest ever loss of shipping.

Seven of these ships now lie on the seabed of the bay, at depths ranging between 10 and 40 metres.

Explore the expansive seas looking for long lost shipwrecks that can now be found on the seabeds within Black Desert Online.

From Louisiana's tarred beaches to the silty scenes on the seabed a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, there have been repeated instances in which BP has tried to limit or delay the flow of information to the public on what is clearly now the biggest oil «spill» in United States history.

Now I get to spend the last twenty or God forbid, thirty years of my life watching it destroyed, one species, one parcel of land, one rainforest, seabed, forest and river, lake and ocean, one brilliant, intricate design at a time as we seek «claim» of what once belonged to itself and that was good enough, for exploitation and financial gain.

Now we're in a time when experts debate whether the peak of production has been reached, or whether ever - higher prices will simply drive exploration ever more to the fringes for new sources — be they tar sands or under the Arctic Ocean seabed.

Now there's an oil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the public.

I note we're just now starting to lease the seabed offshore of the Carolinas for more fossil fuel drilling — it's another rich area.

BP last night resolved questions about the fate of the oil it was now salvaging in growing quantities from its gushing seabed well, announcing that it will create a wildlife fund with all of its net revenues from selling the oil it skims from the sea surface or collects through the siphon positioned over the leak.

New data obtained in our 2011 cruise and other unpublished data give us a clue to reevaluate if the scale of methane releases from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf seabed is assessed correctly (papers are now in preparation).

(There is also the argument from the practical: I suspect that if you could put a straw into the seabed and suck out enough free methane to change the world, the oil companies would have figured it out by now...)

First, given that Arctic seabeds are now releasing methane from gas hydrates at present levels of global warming, the 2 ° limit and carbon budget that Paul refers to is simply irrelevant.

That water could warm up during the summer months because the area is ice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice Age.

Unlike other terrestrial and marine sources, which gradually release methane as it forms, the shelf is emitting methane that has accumulated in seabed deposits for hundreds of thousands of years and until now was restricted by permafrost, says Shakhova.

The company now buries a million tons of C02 in the seabed every year, CO2 the company won't have to pay taxes on.

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