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Ocean eruption leaves deep-sea creatures gasping as ash clouds blanket the seafloor
Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...
New Study Backs Controversial Claim of 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in New Mexico
In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...
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Bering Sea Storms exhibit puts science on display
The Kodiak History Museum and KANA are partnering on a new exhibit highlighting cooperation between scientists and Aleutian ...
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A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean - National Geographic
The continent’s coastal ice is crumbling as the sea and air around it warm. This photo originally published in “ The Larsen C Ice Shelf Collapse Is Just the Beginning—Antarctica Is Melting.” ...
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3 questions answered about Interior’s High Arctic plans
The U.S. Geological Survey also worked on the research in areas that include the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Gulf of Mexico, which was renamed the Gulf of America by Trump. The ...
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Trump order opening Arctic Alaska waters to oil leasing draws legal challenge
Gulls forage on the Norton Sound beach at Nome on Oct. 2, 2020. Norton Sound is part of the Northern Bering Sea. Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama took action to prevent oil leasing in the ...
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Fluxes, Fins, and Feathers: Relationships Among the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas in a Time of Climate Change Relationships Among the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas in ...
Oceanography, Vol. 24, No. 3, The Changing Arctic Ocean: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (2007–2009) (SEPTEMBER 2011), pp. 250-265 (16 pages) ...
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The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp, Geologists Say - Gizmodo
Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers. This complicates ...
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Scientists reveal why Bering Bridge let humans cross — but not all animals - Mashable
A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea. Today this frigid strait separates North America and Asia, but geologists suspect when the oceans were dramatically lower a land ...
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Crossing The Bering Bridge Meant Finding A Path Through Swampy Ground - IFLScience
Fowell, Hill, and colleagues used the R/V Sikuliaq to collect core samples from the sea floor in areas that had been above sea level at the relevant time, focusing on 36 sites already known to be ...
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Some Geologists Argue Earth Has Fewer Than Seven Continents - The New York Times
They are connected by the Bering Sea Shelf, once dry land crossed by humans and flooded only in the geologically recent past. Technically speaking, that makes Asia, North America and Europe all ...
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The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers
In a historic move, the United States has officially expanded its geographical territory by one million square kilometers — an area nearly 60 percent the size of Alaska. The catalyst for this ...