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New tech converts sea water into drinking water in minutes

Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Purifying dirty water is a notoriously difficult and expensive process, which is why a newly invented and ultra-cheap water cleaning process is looking so promising.

One-meter rise in sea levels inevitable, NASA says

Posted in Featured, Science on 28th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

We don't know whether it will happen within a century or somewhat longer, but the rise will have a 'profound impact' around the world.

Heat release from stagnant deep sea helped end last Ice Age

Posted in Science on 16th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

The build-up and subsequent release of warm, stagnant water from the deep Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas played a role in ending the last Ice Age within the Arctic region.

A new study suggests that plankton keeps our planet cool

Posted in Featured, Science on 21st Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Microscopic organisms that float in the oceans known as plankton may be helping our planet against the damaging effects of climate change.

Ocean warming due to climate change is unstoppable

Posted in Featured, Science on 17th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Seas will continue to warm for centuries even if manmade greenhouse gas emissions were frozen at todays levels, say scientists.