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Brazil nuts grow rarer in, of all places, Brazil
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Larry Rohter
International Herald Tribune
08-23-2004
Throughout the 20th century, most of the Brazil nuts consumed around the world came from the jungle surrounding this bustling river market town in the eastern Amazon. But the bitter joke here these days is that the only place you can still find a Brazil nut tree is on the municipal seal. To the chagrin of Brazilians, exports of the nutritious delicacy that bears their country's name have decreased by more than half since 2000, allowing neighboring Bolivia to become the market leader. Groves of Brazil nut trees are disappearing all over the ...
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Deep heat: undersea explorers discover bumper crops of hydrothermal vents on the oceans' floors.(EARTH)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...degrees F) at a vent field dubbed the Turtle Pits. Hydrothermal vents also turned up...scientists know that hydrothermal vents occur on both...Because so many vent fields have been...to think that hydrothermal vents are adding far...
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New type of hydrothermal vent looms large.(Atlantic Ocean discovery)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...A newly found hydrothermal vent system, which...produced by these vents include, at...a new type of hydrothermal vent system, reports...known systems of hydrothermal vents have been found...fissures. Such vent systems emit...
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Huge new hydrothermal vent system found on seafloor; Surprise discovery dubbed "Lost City".
M2 Presswire
; ...on the cruise. "If this vent field was on land, it would...Nothing like this submarine hydrothermal field has ever been previously...most other mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal environments, appear to...while Studying geological and hydrothermal processes that built an unusually...mountain itself as ...
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The remarkable diversity of seafloor vents: continuing explorations reveal an increasing variety of hydrothermal systems.(Earth-Ocean)
Magazine article from: Oceanus
; ...cold seawater and hot vent fluids, seeping from...were present at the vents, including large clams...1979, a second active hydrothermal system was discovered...enter the oceans via vents. They are leached...reactions with hot hydrothermal fluids. Other hydrothermal vent ...
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EARLY JURASSIC HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY FROM THE FRANCISCAN COMPLEX, CALIFORNIA
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...groups found at modern vent sites are missing from...data. INTRODUCTION HYDROTHERMAL VENTS were first discovered...et al., 2002). Hydrothermal fluid issuing onto the sea floor at these vent sites is hot (up to...these seemingly toxic hydrothermal fluids directly support...
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Prospecting for hydrothermal vents using moored current and temperature data: Axial volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ...Prospecting for Hydrothermal Vents Using Moored Current and...Locations and magnitudes of the hydrothermal sources leading to the observed...flux from low-buoyancy hydrothermal sources is apparently less...flux from high-buoyancy hydrothermal sources, a result that is...balance of heat flux ...
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Formation of Zn- and Fe-sulfides near hydrothermal vents at the Eastern Lau Spreading Center: implications for sulfide bioavailability to chemoautotrophs.(Research article)
Magazine article from: Geochemical Transactions
; ...sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean...seawater environment from hydrothermal fluid release [3...bioavailability of sulfide in the hydrothermal fluids change rapidly...warm, highly reducing vent fluids mix with cold...diversity near the ELSC vents were uniquely ...
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Hydrothermal vents found in Arctic Ocean.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...release in scalding vents that can reach temperatures...voyage, arranged for hydrothermal data to be collected and for Edmonds, a vent expert, to come along...understanding of the way hydrothermal vents are globally distributed...we have looked." Hydrothermal vents often ...
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Scientists discover secrets of 'Lost City'; New class of hydrothermal vents formed differently.
M2 Presswire
; ...City'; New class of hydrothermal vents formed differently...LTD RDATE:11072001 Hydrothermal vent structures serendipitously...massive 18-story vent taller than any seen...than ocean-floor vents studied since the 1970s...This new class of hydrothermal vents apparently ...
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Major Cruise to Galapagos Rift Marks 25th Anniversary of Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Discovery.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service
; ...where the first hydrothermal vents were found...original Galapagos vents have changed over...search for new vent life and black...its center, how vents regulate ocean...the base of the hydrothermal vent food chain starts...microorganisms at deep sea vents support a ...
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