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Understanding Lagoons
Researchers spent the last several years creating a model of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad, CA to estimate the effects the lagoon has on carbon levels, temperature and human impacts.
USGS researchers report that the coral reefs off the Florida Keys barely grew in the past 3,000 years. Due to disease and bleaching, the erosion may be irreversible.
Science Magazine reports a crack in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lead to rising sea levels and glaciologists are concerned for the potential of a global flood. (Photo Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./JAPAN ASTER SCIENCE TEAM/FLICKR)
