Rivers Transport Carbon From Fires Into Oceans, Locking It In Storage for Thousands of Years
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
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MIT Machine Learning Technique Helps Map Global Ocean Communities
An MIT-developed technique could aid in tracking the ocean’s health and productivity. On land, it’s fairly obvious where one ecological region ends and another begins,…
Cyclones Can Damage Distant Coral Reefs 1000 Km Away – 10x Further Than Conventional Modeling
Research finds current models underestimate the impact of hurricanes and typhoons on coral reef communities. Big and strong cyclones can harm coral reefs as far…
“Deep Biosphere” Microbes: Life Is Bubbling Up From Sediments Deep Below the Ocean Floor
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that we move through a world shaped by unseen life. Bacteria, viruses, and other microscopic organisms regulate the…
New MIT Search-and-Rescue Algorithm Identifies Hidden “Traps” in Ocean Waters
Method may help quickly identify regions where objects — and missing people — may have converged. The ocean is a messy and turbulent space, where…
Climate Velocity: The Deep Ocean Is Warming Slowly – But Dramatic Changes Are Ahead
The world’s deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it’s still not good news for deep-sea creatures according to an…
Surprises Surfacing in the Atlantic: Species Far From Home Detected by DNA Traces in Seawater
DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of marine life predicted a decade ago; Fishing DNA from seawater: a harmless, economical…
Ocean Circulation May Hold the Key to Finding Alien Life on Exoplanets
In search for alien life, planets exactly like Earth may not be best places to look, study finds. Researchers across the globe have long tackled…
How Climate Killed Corals, Devastating the Great Barrier Reef
Multiple factors joined forces to devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016. A squad of climate-related factors is responsible for the massive Australian coral bleaching…
Key to Past & Future Habitat of West Coast Marine Species Is Ocean ‘Breathability’
Marine life off the West Coast, from Mexico up through Canada, inhabit the California Current. The cool, nutrient-rich water supports life from invisible phytoplankton to…
New Research Affirms Modern Sea-Level Rise Linked to Human Activities, Not to Changes in Earth’s Orbit
Surprising glacial and nearly ice-free periods in last 66 million years. New research by Rutgers scientists reaffirms that modern sea-level rise is linked to human…
Harnessing Wave Power to Rebuild Islands and Combat Sea-Level Rise
In the Maldives, an MIT team is conducting experiments to combat sea-level rise by redirecting natural sand movement. Many island nations, including the Maldives in…
Researchers Explore Ocean Microbes’ Role in Global-Scale Climate Processes
When they encounter nutrient oases in the marine desert, marine bacteria release a gas involved in climate regulation. A new study shows that “hotspots” of…
Harmful Algal Blooms in Arabian Sea Fueled by Shrinking Snowcaps
Climate-driven shifts disrupt fisheries, desalination plants; problems may hit other regions. A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years…
Shedding New Light on the Ocean’s Living Carbon Pump
Phytoplankton play a crucial role in ocean biology and climate. Understanding the natural processes that influence phytoplankton primary production, and how they are changing as…
NASA’s ICESat-2 Mission Maps 16 Years of Melting Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists led by the University of Washington has made…
The Missing 99%? Highest Ever Level of Microplastics Found on Seafloor
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin…
“Global Diversity Curves Are Misleading” – Ocean Biodiversity Has Not Increased Substantially for Hundreds of Millions of Years
A new way of looking at marine evolution over the past 540 million years has shown that levels of biodiversity in our oceans have remained…