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Boom in carbon-sequestering phytoplankton raises new questions about oceanic carbon uptake and productivity. Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019…
Zooplankton swim up and down repeatedly due to subtle changes in daylight intensity. Cued by the setting sun, droves of zooplankton and small fish each…
Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity ‘break point’ boundaries in the oceans – according to…
Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters above sea level, whose rapid melting is…
Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing the animals to more lethal ship…
Ocean currents embody motion, snaking their way from the tropics to the poles and back, shifting vast quantities of water from moment to moment. But…
Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to fill nearly five million Olympic-size swimming pools each year,…
Between 35.6% and 95% of 20th century ocean surface climates — defined by surface water temperature, pH, and the concentration of the mineral aragonite —…
Highest resolution global warming simulation conducted to date reveals possible end of El Niño/ La Niña temperature cycle. The cycling between warm El Niño and…
Shelled organisms helped buffer ocean acidification by consuming less alkalinity from seawater. Third recent Northwestern study to detect calcification stress before and across ancient ocean…
Nitrogen isotopes reveal that stratification of Arctic waters will prevent surface plankton from receiving enough nutrients to grow abundantly. As the North Pole, the Arctic…
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide…
Climate conditions play a significant role in the reproductive success of mature female Antarctic krill and are a factor in fluctuations of the population that…
River discharge and nutrient loads contribute to size. Recently, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to…
Researchers map the geothermal heat flow in West Antarctica; a new potential weak spot in the ice sheet’s stability is identified. Ice losses from Thwaites…
Treating corals with a probiotic cocktail of beneficial bacteria increases survival after a bleaching event, according to new research. This approach could be administered in…
As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of increased ocean temperatures. However, the reality is more complicated. New…
Nitrogen is vital for all forms of life: It is part of proteins, nucleic acids, and other cell structures. Thus, it was of great importance…