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Nitrogen cruise ends, mission to explore undersea volcanism begins

Source: Scientific American.com: Earth & Environment - Posted: March 19, 2010 11:01

Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident is traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other research projects. This is the seventh and final blog post detailing this voyage of discovery for ScientificAmerican.com . But the next leg of the cruise begins now: a deep water exploration of undersea volcanism.

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New Study Debunks Myths About Amazon Rain Forests

Source: NASA News - Posted: March 19, 2010 10:45
A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Boston University Medical Center press release)
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Southern Ocean Winds Open Window to the Deep Sea

Source: NASA News - Posted: March 19, 2010 10:45
Scientists have discovered how changes in winds blowing on the Southern Ocean drive variations in the depth of the surface layer of sea water responsible for regulating exchanges of heat and carbon dioxide between the ocean and the atmosphere. (CSIRO Australia press release)
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