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Headline	Author	Published	Section
We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Dust Saharan dust may decrease effect of Atlantic hurricanes		11 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Dust Saharan dust may decrease effect of Atlantic hurricanes Thick clouds of dust rising up from the Sahara Desert are linked to less frequent Atlantic hurricanes, says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Studying satellite data from 1981 to the present, American researchers noted that dust clouds were scarce in years with intense hurricane activity ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, desertification, Florida, news (all these topics)

C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns The popularity of sushi is sending tuna stocks into a downward spiral, says the World Wildlife Fund, warning that Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna will go extinct if commercial fishers continue hooking them at current rates. "The fishery is running out of control," WWF says in a new report. To keep ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, Mediterranean, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Knot So Fast Feds propose speed limit to protect right whales		28 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Knot So Fast Feds propose speed limit to protect right whales Hoping to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, the U.S. government has proposed making large vessels in the North Atlantic obey an ocean speed limit of 10 knots -- about 11.5 mph -- during the times of the year when whales are in the area. (If they were left whales, would they get the same protection? We wonder.) Ships and fishing nets are the most common ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, news, oceans (all these topics)

It's All Happening at the Zooplankton New species of deep-sea zooplankton discovered		05 May 2006	Daily Grist
It's All Happening at the Zooplankton New species of deep-sea zooplankton discovered Scientists have found 10 to 20 new species of zooplankton deep in the Atlantic Ocean, including teeny-tiny shrimp-like creatures, gooey jellyfish-esque plankton, and swimming worms. Zooplankton form the base of many ocean food chains and act as carbon sinks by feeding on carbon-laden plant phytoplankton and then sinking to the ocean depth ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, news (all these topics)

Below the Melt Greenland ice sheet melting speedily, making seas rise faster		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Below the Melt Greenland ice sheet melting speedily, making seas rise faster New research indicates that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than we thought, will be gone sooner than we thought, and may raise sea levels more than we thought. Whee! The new study, published in Science, says Greenland's glaciers -- among the earth's largest freshwater reservoirs -- are sliding into the Atlantic at twice the rat ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Deconstructing Hurricane Intense 2005 hurricane season may be harbinger of things to come		01 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Deconstructing Hurricane Intense 2005 hurricane season may be harbinger of things to come This year's Atlantic hurricane season officially ended yesterday (at which point we emerged from basement bunker, blinking), having racked up a record-breaking 26 named storms. Thirteen of these became hurricanes, and three reached Category 5 strength, including Katrina. And over half the past two seasons' storms have made landfall, comp ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, news (all these topics)

A Current Despair Waning of Atlantic currents could chill Europe		01 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
A Current Despair Waning of Atlantic currents could chill Europe Remember that movie The Day After Tomorrow? With the shifting ocean currents that cause sudden, catastrophic climate changes? Crazy stuff! Michael Moore territory! Well ... funny story. Turns out the Atlantic Ocean currents that move warm tropical waters northward and cooler waters south have in fact slowed dramatically -- by about 30 percent in ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, news (all these topics)

Reefer Badness Caribbean corals bleaching at unprecedented rate		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Reefer Badness Caribbean corals bleaching at unprecedented rate This year's notably warmer-than-usual Atlantic waters -- fuel for 2005's intense hurricane season -- have been devastating some life below the waves as well. Water temperatures have remained elevated for about 15 weeks, causing coral reefs to bleach from the Florida Keys to Puerto Rico to Panama. The micro-algae that feed corals, and give them their br ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, news, oceans (all these topics)

Out of Tuna Bluefin tuna, unable to swim inside the lines, at risk of extinction		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Out of Tuna Bluefin tuna, unable to swim inside the lines, at risk of extinction Apparently western Atlantic bluefin tuna don't understand the concept of fisheries quotas, and may soon face extinction because of it, marine scientists report in the journal Nature. Bluefin tuna can grow up to 10 feet in length and weigh 1,500 lbs., and, due to high demand for sushi, they can fetch as much as $98,000 on the Tokyo fish market ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, news (all these topics)

Sea Whirled Gene Study of Sargasso Sea Sample Yields Surprising Results		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Sea Whirled Gene Study of Sargasso Sea Sample Yields Surprising Results Gene sequencing conducted on a small sample of water from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda has revealed some 1,800 new species and led to questions about our basic knowledge of ocean biology. A group of scientists led by Craig Venter -- the famed gene researcher and developer of a method for accelerating the sequencing of the human genome -- found 800 new genes ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Salt Water Daffy Climate Change Alters Salt Levels in Atlantic Ocean, to Europe's Dismay		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Salt Water Daffy Climate Change Alters Salt Levels in Atlantic Ocean, to Europe's Dismay The Atlantic Ocean seems so vast that it's almost impossible to imagine fundamentally altering it -- and yet, its salt levels have changed so drastically over the last 40 years because of global warming that the whole flow of ocean water is being disrupted, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. As ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, oceans (all these topics)

Giving Up the Ghost Fleet U.S. Navy Ships Get Ready for Transatlantic Trip, Toxics and All		03 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Giving Up the Ghost Fleet U.S. Navy Ships Get Ready for Transatlantic Trip, Toxics and All Thirteen is not a lucky number, and many fear that bad luck could trail in the wake of 13 decrepit and pollution-laden U.S. ships that are set to embark on a 4,500-mile voyage from Virginia to the British region of Teesside.* The ships are part of the U.S. Navy's "ghost fleet," a flotilla of 120 aging v ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy (all these topics)

Logbook Rolling		25 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Logbook Rolling Prior to commercial whaling, far more whales thrived in the North Atlantic than previously thought, according to a study published in today's issue of Science. Earlier studies estimated historical whale populations by combing through logbooks from old whaling ships; the current study was the first to look instead at telltale genetic variations that increase as the population of a species grows. Based on that tool, the ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, oceans (all these topics)

Rubber Ducky, You're the $100		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Rubber Ducky, You're the $100 Thanks to "Sesame Street," everybody over the age of two knows that rubber duckies make bath time lots of fun -- but who knew the little yellow guys could make oceanography a bit more fun, too? Eleven years ago, a shipping container carrying 29,000 rubber bath toys (frogs, turtles, and beavers, as well as the familiar duckies) fell overboard in a ...
Topics: Africa, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking (all these topics)

The Bycatcher in the Rye		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Bycatcher in the Rye "Save the whales!" "Save the dolphins!" Those were rallying cries of the environmental movement in the 1980s and '90s, and they culminated in a successful campaign for "dolphin-safe" tuna -- that is, tuna-fishing practices in the Pacific Ocean that wouldn't harm marine mammals. Unfortunately, scientists now say that commercial f ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Grim Reefer		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Reefer Coral reefs are usually associated with the balmy blue waters of the tropics, but the amazing underwater kingdoms exist in cooler climes, too -- at least for now. A new study by French, British, and Norwegian scientists found that 4,500-year-old reefs in the northeastern Atlanti ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Go Fish!		08 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Go Fish! Maine's wild Atlantic salmon remain genetically distinct despite more than a century of fish-stocking, aquaculture escapes, and other threats to the species, according to an independent report prepared by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The report undermines the claim by Maine Gov. Angus King (I) and others that Maine salmon were genetically diluted and therefore did not merit protection ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, fishing, GMOs, Maine, marine life (all these topics)

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