Marine geoscientists link warming with ancient ocean 'salty blob'

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean ...

Subsurface ocean temp, salinity influence monsoon pace: Study

Dehradun: Variations in subsurface temperature and salinity in the Indian Ocean—often invisible to conventional ...
Summit County

The Colorado River is salty. But where does salinity come from, and what’s being done about it?

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...
Eos

The North Atlantic Is Getting Saltier

Ocean currents along the U.S. East Coast get colder as they travel north. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Seawater salinity is not all the same, and ocean ...
KSL

The gap between the Great Salt Lake's arms is closing. What does that mean for salinity?

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...
Live Science

What's the difference between a rock and a mineral?

Rocks and minerals are closely related, but there are fundamental differences between the two. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
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Ocean currents, the pulse of our planet, are slowing as water temperature rises

The health of our oceans is a barometer for the planet’s overall environmental condition, with ocean currents playing a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate. A recent study has shed new light ...
The Conversation

Even far from the ocean, Australia’s drylands are riddled with salty groundwater. What can land managers do?

Nik Callow has received salinity-related funding as an employee of The University of Western Australia and previously when working for the WA Government Department of Food and Agriculture. He is a ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Variability in Quantity and Salinity of Produced Water from an Oil Production in South Kuwait ()

1 Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. 2 Department of Chemistry, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, ...
SciTech Daily

Harnessing the Sea’s Hidden Energy: New Nano-Device Turns Seawater Into Electricity

A novel nanodevice developed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign team can generate electricity from the salinity differences between seawater and freshwater, showing potential for scalable ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Achenbach, L. and Brix, H. (2013) Can Differences in Salinity Tolerance Explain the Distribution of Four Genetically Distinct Lineages of Phragmites australis in the ...

ABSTRACT: Aims: Two genetically distinct clones of Phragmites australis were used to investigate the immediate response induced by osmotic stress. The study aimed at elucidating if the response time, ...