Scientific American2 个月
The East Pacific Rise
The East Pacific Rise This broad, 8,000-mile-long bulge in the crust of the earth differs in many ways from the rest of the ocean bottom. It may be the result of huge convection currents in the ...
THE WEEK1 年
‘Cold tongue’: what the Pacific Ocean cool patch mystery says about climate change
A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists. The surprising and rapid rise in ocean ...
Long-lost seafloor is discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean
The prehistoric seafloor was found at the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific ...
CNN5 年
Rising sea levels are threatening this Pacific paradise
The Pacific paradise, located between Australia ... and they worry about it getting worse as sea levels rise.” The encroaching sea brings with it a host of problems. The country’s limited ...
World Bank13 年
The World Bank In East Asia Pacific
East Asia and Pacific also bears the brunt of 70% of the world’s natural disasters, which have affected more than 1.6 billion people in the region since 2000. Pacific Island countries, where rising ...