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Earth’s oceans help to slow global warming by absorbing carbon from our atmosphere – but fully observing this crucial process in the upper ocean and…
Nova Southeastern University researchers lead team studying smooth hammerhead sharks. They are some of the most iconic and unique-looking creatures in our oceans. While some…
Sea ice can act as an agent of climate change on a variety of timescales and spatial scales—it’s not just a passive responder to change….
Despite climate change being most obvious to people as unseasonably warm winter days or melting glaciers, as much as 95 percent of the extra heat…
Ocean algae get ‘coup de grace’ from viruses. Viruses don’t immediately kill algae but live in harmony with them. Scientists have long believed that ocean…
The closest analog to modern times is no longer very close, study finds. A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest…
The ocean takes up an estimated five to 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year through a process known as the biological carbon pump. More…
Ocean Carbon Uptake Widely Underestimated The world’s oceans soak up much more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research. Previous estimates of…
Ice is melting at a surprisingly fast rate underneath Shirase Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica due to the continuing influx of warm seawater into the…
Scientists’ ice age ‘hindcast’ may shed light on future climate. A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age…
First estimate of the point at which areas of the world’s oceans will show evidence of the impacts of climate change. More than 50% of…
A team of researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) identified a global tendency…
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with Southeast Asia megadrought. Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between…
Even if the climate cools, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink. Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the…
Arctic sea ice is subject to some serious travel restrictions. Penned in by major land masses, most ice that forms in the Arctic Ocean stays…
Scientists analyzing hydrothermal fluid from Piccard vents at Mid-Cayman Rise find non-biological processes deplete hydrogen that was thought to be readily available to subseafloor microbial…
An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the…
An international team discovered a previously unrecognized ocean current that transports water to one of the world’s largest “waterfalls” in the North Atlantic Ocean: the…