Science news articles about 'west spitsbergen'

  • Norwegian fossil hunters unearth a Jurassic sea monster

    ... half of the formidable reptile's skull in south-west Spitsbergen in what has been described as one of the most significant Jurassic discoveries ever made.The predator has been identified as a new ...
  • Warming ocean contributes to global warming

    ... of bubbles of methane gas are rising from the seabed of the West Spitsbergen continental margin in the Arctic, in a depth ... . The results indicate that the warming of the northward-flowing West Spitsbergen current by 1° over the last thirty ...
  • High-Arctic heat tops 1,800-year high, says study

    ... found, when the northern arm of the Gulf Stream, known as the West Spitsbergen Current, may have brought more tropical water to the region. In 1890, the warming began to accelerate, with researchers ...

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