Global estimate of submarine groundwater discharge based on an...
Along the continental margins, rivers and submarine groundwater supply nutrients, trace elements, and radionuclides to the coastal ocean, supporting coastal ecosystems and, increasingly, causing harmful
View ArticleThe deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris
Marine debris, mostly consisting of plastic, is a global problem, negatively impacting wildlife, tourism and shipping. However, despite the durability of plastic, and the exponential increase in its...
View ArticleUse of pre-industrial floodplain lake sediments to establish baseline river...
In the Alberta oil sands region, insufficient knowledge of pre-disturbance reference conditions has undermined the ability of the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) to detect pollution of the
View ArticleIntegrated hydrological data book (non-classified river basins)
Information System Organisation (ISO) of Water Planning & Projects Wing (WP&P) in CWC is a statistical unit of CWC entrusted in compiling data collected by CWC field offices and bringing out...
View ArticleFertile farmlands in Cauvery delta: evolution through LGM
The Cauvery delta encompasses legendary farmlands for at least over the last 2300 years BP that had supported the growth of the famous Chola and Pandya kingdoms. The chrono-stratigraphic study from six
View ArticlePaleoceanographic insights on recent oxygen minimum zone expansion: Lessons...
Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we investigate OMZ expansion through
View ArticleClimate change forces new ecological states in tropical Andean lakes
Air temperatures in the tropical Andes have risen at an accelerated rate relative to the global average over recent decades. However, the effects of climate change on Andean lakes, which are vital to...
View ArticleThe May 21st, 2014 Bay of Bengal earthquake: implications for intraplate...
The northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, i.e. the Bay of Bengal (BoB) is located near some of the most complicated tectonic zones on the Earth. An earthquake of magnitude ~6.0 occurred on 21 May 2014
View ArticleGlobal carbon export from the terrestrial biosphere controlled by erosion
Riverine export of particulate organic carbon (POC) to the ocean affects the atmospheric carbon inventory over a broad range of timescales. On geological timescales, the balance between sequestration of
View ArticleEffects of salmon-derived nutrients and habitat characteristics on population...
Movement of nutrients across ecosystem boundaries can have important effects on food webs and population dynamics. An example from the North Pacific Rim is the connection between productive marine...
View ArticleSummary statement of Nicaragua canal environmental impact assessment review...
On March 9th and 10th, 2015, an independent panel met for two days at Florida International University’s College of Law to discuss the likely environmental impacts associated with the proposed...
View ArticleOn the ecogeomorphological feedbacks that control tidal channel network...
An ecomorphodynamic model was developed to study how Avicennia marina mangroves influence channel network evolution in sandy tidal embayments. The model accounts for the effects of mangrove trees on
View ArticleTectonic framework and evolutionary history of the Bengal Basin in the Indian...
The Bengal Basin evolved as a rift-controlled extensional basin along the NNE–SSW trending Basin Margin Fault coevally with the 85 East Ridge in the Bay of Bengal during the short-lived hotspot
View ArticleCensus of seafloor sediments in the world’s ocean (Digital sea floor map, 2015)
Knowing the patterns of distribution of sediments in the global ocean is critical for understanding biogeochemical cycles and how deep-sea deposits respond to environmental change at the sea surface.
View ArticleWorld's first digital map of the ocean floor released
Forty years after the ocean floor was first mapped by hand, a team of Australian researchers has created the first digital map of the entire sea floor. Made by the University of Sydney's School
View ArticleGoing deep- Cautious steps toward seabed mining
The deep ocean was once assumed to be lifeless and barren. Today we know that even the deepest waters teem with living creatures, some of them thought to be little changed from when life itself first
View ArticleVegetation and climatic variability in southeastern Madhya Pradesh, India...
Pollen analysis of 1.75 m deep sediment core from Tula-Jalda (Amarkantak) in Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh shows that around 4500–3600 cal years BP, this region supported open mixed tropical
View ArticleMussels as bioindicators of PAHs pollution within Argentinean coastal...
The Bahía Blanca Estuary, located at the Atlantic coast of Argentina, includes a governmental nature reserve to protect biodiversity, lands and water; however, as the process of industrialization
View ArticleGlobal nutrient transport in a world of giants
The past was a world of giants, with abundant whales in the sea and large animals roaming the land. However, that world came to an end following massive late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions on land
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of muck in river...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madan Lal Vs. Union of India & Ors. regarding the illegal dumping of huge quantities of muck by the Project Proponent in river Satluj.
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