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Flooded summer season, Atlantic
Ocean blames
Northern Europe picks on the
Atlantic Ocean because of its wet summer according to a new study. The rising
and falling of ocean temperature or the so called cyclical deception is seen as
a major extortion on the weather. The said pattern reported will last long as
the Atlantic warming persists. The research was carried out at the University
of Reading and is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. R
The cycle of scheme investigated
was known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. This change sees the waters
warm or cool over a period of several decades. The researchers compared three
periods in this cycle: a warm state from 1931-60, a cool period from 1961-90
and the most recent warm period starting in 1990 and continuing now. The paper
notes that conditions in the last warm period in the Atlantic are broadly
similar to those pragmatic now.
Giant mammoth carcass in Siberian
frost
Yevgeny Salinder, an 11-year old
Russian boy, is the one who discovered the massive remains of the mammoth in
August.
The mammoth, estimated to be at
its 16 year when it died measured 2 meters and weighed 1,000 pounds, was
excavated from the Siberian permafrost last month.
”It is the mammoth of the
century,” said Professor Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoological Museum in St
Petersburg.
According to a Russian scientist,
the well-preserved mammoth could be attacked by another mammoth or an Ice Age
man. It was best preserved remains of a mature mammoth but its DNA was already
damaged and would be difficult to use for cloning.
The International Mammoth
Committee working to recover and protect ancient remains: “We had to use both
traditional instruments such as axes, picks, shovels as well as such devices as
this ‘steamer’ which allowed us to thaw a thin layer of permafrost. Then we
cleaned it off, and then we melted more of it. It took us a week to complete
this task.”
A group of researchers from
different countries have visited the site in September and they were surprised
to see that the remains were not only made up of bones but in fact, complete
with hair, one tusk and soft tissues.
Protein to combat reef-destroying
starfish
A group of scientists in
Australia has announced this week and potentially effective way to eliminate
the destructive starfish, crown of thorns that are feasting on coral reefs in
the Pacific Ocean.
The crown of thorns is already
prominent in the Pacific and Indian Ocean where they feed mainly on coral
polyps. Outbreaks of the large and poisonous starfish are blamed for the
massive destruction of corals.
The Great Barrier Reef is located
in the northeastern coast of Australia and composed of thousands of reef
formations. The report by Australian Institute of Marine Science showed that
almost half of the coral reef is gone compared to its size 30 years ago.
Clearly, the first phase would be
to remove the voracious eaters, starfish, and convince farming operations to
reduce their chemical-laden runoffs that victimize coral, and in some cases
even support the starfish growth.
James Cook University in Queensland
announced their discovery of a bacteria culture that could help in preserving
the Great Barrier Reef by killing the culprit, starfish. The protein mixture
where the bacteria are cultured was discovered to be capable of destroying
starfish within 24 hours.
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