PAGE A10 STUDY SUGGESTS RAPID SEA RISE Evidence from fossil coral reefs in Mexico underlines the potential for a sudden jump in sea levels because of global warming, scientists reported in a new study.
In Myanmar in May 2008, I trolled the muddy canals of the Irrawaddy delta, counting bodies floating down to the sea, the evidence of a storm of biblical proportions that swept away more than 130,000 people.
When the early settlers sailed to Rapa Nui from Polynesia, life on the lost island was all about living off the sea, and evidence indicates that crude surfboards were constructed for travel and fishing.
These photographs show the pack ice killer whales' distinctive hunting behavior: how they spot a seal, how they wash it into the sea, and evidence of their extraordinary butchery.
They are also searching the seabed for evidence of what caused the explosion.
But the statement offered another confirmation that the Russian military is actively scouring the seabed for evidence that might shed light on its collision theory.
Russian officials said they suspected that the Kursk was sunk after striking a submerged object of "large tonnage," like a foreign submarine, and they were busy scouring the seabed for evidence.
Subsequent archaeological investigation found debris scattered over 500 m of seabed and evidence that the ship was wracked by two huge explosions one after the other.
The extinctions may be related to an onset of low-oxygen conditions in epicontinental seas, as evidenced by the presence today of layers of organic-rich shales, which must have been formed in seas with so little oxygen that no burrowing organisms could survive and efficient breakdown of organic matter could not occur.
WASHINGTON — Even as they focus on the struggle to plug the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, engineers are longing for the twisted and scorched metal at the bottom of the sea and other evidence that might tell them what went wrong seven weeks ago.
