The rivers of South America’s Amazon basin are “breathing” far harde — cycling the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide more quickly — than anyone realized.
Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath
July 29, 2005
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Life in ‘Lost City’
March 10, 2005
The hydrothermal vents were miles from where anyone could have imagined.
Sign of caring: Ladner learns parents’ language, contributes to their community
May 20, 2004
In a way, Richard Ladner inherited his volunteer interests.
Seafloor vent systems may have spawned earliest life
August 7, 2003
Black smoker hydrothermal vent systems may have the fire power, but the staying power of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field — discovered just two and a half years ago — is one reason they may have been incubators of some of Earth’s earliest life, say UW scientists and their co-authors in a recent issue of Science.
Tropical streams, rivers ‘exhaling’ millions of tons more CO2 than thought
April 10, 2002
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Scientists delve into North Pacific mystery of changing oxygen
February 13, 2002
Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little under two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
Hydrothermal vent system unlike any seen before found in Atlantic
December 12, 2000
A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed “The Lost City,” was discovered Dec. 4 on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.
‘Argo’ on quest for better climate forecasts
September 19, 2000
A University of Washington oceanographer is in Washington, D.C., today for a press conference announcing the first phase of a program that could take climate forecasting to the next level of accuracy by routinely making measurements up to a mile beneath the sea surface at points across all the world’s oceans.
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