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NASA satellite Data Used to Track Ocean Microplastics

NNL Staff - June 28, 2021 0

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Understanding Ancient History Can Help Us Protect Our Oceans

NetNewsLedger - April 24, 2019 0

A sensitive area in the Arctic Ocean is playing an unexpectedly large role in removing extra nitrogen from the ocean. Nitrogen is critical for living things, but too much of it -- as is the case now, because of fertilizers and other human activity -- can be harmful to life. In the first study of its kind in the Arctic, scientists found that the bacteria that remove nitrogen here are responsible for about 5 percent of the world's nitrogen removal in oceans; earlier estimates had been that the figure was closer to 1 percent. CREDIT: University of Texas at Austin

Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Impacts Atlantic Ocean water circulation system

NNL Staff - August 1, 2017 0

A sensitive area in the Arctic Ocean is playing an unexpectedly large role in removing extra nitrogen from the ocean. Nitrogen is critical for living things, but too much of it -- as is the case now, because of fertilizers and other human activity -- can be harmful to life. In the first study of its kind in the Arctic, scientists found that the bacteria that remove nitrogen here are responsible for about 5 percent of the world's nitrogen removal in oceans; earlier estimates had been that the figure was closer to 1 percent. CREDIT: University of Texas at Austin

What would the Ocean Say?

NetNewsLedger - June 12, 2017 0