Researchers in the US and Canada have proposed a new indicator to chart the progress of climate change, based on the strength of the Arctic “halocline”. The indicator describes how easy it is for the ...

In short: An unusual oceanic event known as a halocline has occurred in Tathra off the NSW south coast. It appeared following heavy rainfall which battered the east coast of Australia on Thursday and ...

Total RNA and genomic DNA were extracted from membrane filters prepared as described above (see section Sampling site and sample collection of Materials and methods) using Qiagen RNA/DNA Mini Kit ...

NEST fellow Amy Lauren traveled to the Arctic with a group of scientists on a year-long scientific expedition to study the northern climate system. Into the Polar Night is a National Science ...

F. Fripiat, M. Declercq, C. J. Sapart, L. G. Anderson, V. Bruechert, F. Deman, D. Fonseca-Batista, C. Humborg, A. Roukaerts, I. P. Semiletov, F. Dehairs https://www ...

Deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea are considered some of the most hostile environments on Earth. Little is known about the biochemical adaptations of ...

With rivers providing an abundant supply of fresh water, the upper layers of the Black Sea are less dense than its saltier lower layers. A permanent boundary between the two prevents any vertical ...