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Satellite image of a typhoon.
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Impacts of Urban Heat and Friction on a Tropical Cyclone

by Matei Georgescu 13 February 20257 February 2025

A new computer modeling-based study demonstrates dual mechanisms that reduce pre- and post-landfall tropical cyclone intensity.

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南海微生物可能形成磁铁矿

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 23 August 202423 August 2024

研究人员对沉积物岩心进行了采样,发现磁铁矿丰富的地方也存在产甲烷细菌。

A black-and-white image from an electron microscope shows a gray substance made up of many smaller uneven balls of material (similar to Nerds Rope candy).
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Microbes Likely Form Magnetite in the South China Sea

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 22 July 202423 August 2024

Researchers sampled sediment cores and found that where magnetite was abundant, methane-producing bacteria were as well.

Une image sous-marine montre un scientifique plongeur forant dans un grand dôme de corail
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La chimie du corail reflète l’expansion économique d’Asie du Sud-Est

by Rebecca Dzombak 22 August 202322 August 2023

Les sols en érosion en raison du développement économique ont transporté des sédiments en mer de Chine méridionale… et jusque dans le squelette corallien.

Una imagen subacuática que muestra a un científico con traje de buzo sobre un coral extrayendo un núcleo de este.
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La química de los corales refleja la expansión económica del sudeste asiático

by Rebecca Dzombak 14 June 20235 July 2023

La erosión del suelo derivada del desarrollo económico mueve sedimentos hacia el mar del sur de China y también hacia los esqueletos de los corales.

A large boat loaded with shipping containers sails in front of a port as the Sun rises in the background.
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Warming Waters Drive Some Mariners to Piracy

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 12 June 202312 June 2023

As fish production waxes and wanes with climate change, so too does the risk of maritime piracy in East Africa and the South China Sea.

这张水下照片展示了一位正在潜水的科学家在钻探一块巨大的白色珊瑚的顶部。
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珊瑚反映东南亚的经济增长

by Rebecca Dzombak 31 May 20231 June 2023

经济发展造成的土壤侵蚀将沉积物送入南中国海,并进入珊瑚骨架。

Images of measurements taken from a coccolithophore.
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Applying Algal Geometry to Past and Future Environments

by Marguerite A. Xenopoulos 11 May 202310 May 2023

Math can be fun when reconstructing the ocean’s past and forecasting the future with algal geometry.

An underwater image shows a diving scientist drilling into a large, white dome of coral.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Coral Chemistry Reflects Southeast Asia’s Economic Expansion

by Rebecca Dzombak 11 May 202322 August 2023

Soil erosion from economic development sent sediments into the South China Sea—and into coral skeletons.

Sea surface reflection from satellite images showing solitary wave fronts
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Atoll Seismometer Detection of Solitary Ocean Waves

by Thorsten W. Becker 10 September 202113 January 2022

Seismic recordings from the South China Sea indicate that subtle, daily tilting of shorelines due to passing internal ocean waves can be measured on land, promising new constraints on ocean dynamics.

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