The glowing patches of water in the Southern Ocean were found to be a chemical combination of diatoms and marine microalgae ...

Warm water, thus, weighs less than the same quantity of cold water. For the calculation of the ocean mass it is, therefore, necessary to know the temperature and salt content profiles.

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The patch of sea is about a million square kilometers (400,000 square miles), covering an area of ocean larger than the size of Texas. “The ocean surface doesn’t vary that wildly,” Renwick said.

Like water, trees can look even more impressive from a bird's-eye view. Aerial shot of trees in Norway. Courtesy of Erez Marom This photo was taken in Senja, an island off Norway.

Tedetti says the ocean waters, which the researchers sampled using these canisters, were "almost violet" Satellite images reveal the chlorophyll-poor patch of water in the south-east Pacific (in ...

In the time it's been around South Georgia, researchers found, the iceberg released roughly 152 billion tons of fresh water and nutrients into the ocean over the course of about three months.