Long-Standing Climate Puzzle Finally Unraveled Thanks to Ancient Marine Fossils
Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behavior during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago….
Oceanography
Ocean Acidification From Climate Change Is Damaging Shark Scales
While regular fish have flat scales, shark ‘scales’ look more like teeth. But their denticles also cover their body and in particular influence their ability…
15% Chance North Atlantic Current Partially Collapses in Next 100 Years
Total collapse in the next 1,000 years unlikely. The North Atlantic Current transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe, providing much of…
Unprecedented and Worrying Rise in Sea Levels Poses Serious Threat to Coastal Cities
A new study led by Simon Fraser University’s Dean of Science, Prof. Paul Kench, has discovered new evidence of sea-level variability in the central Indian…
Antarctica’s Thinning Ice Shelves Causing More Ice to Flow Into Sea
New study provides the first evidence that thinning ice shelves around Antarctica are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea. A…
Giant Seismic Network Created With Submarine Cables to Offshore Wind Farms
New technology could open the door to seafloor earthquake monitoring. An international team of geoscientists led by Caltech has used fiber optic communications cables stationed…
Global Warming, Ocean Acidification: Earth Was Stressed Before Dinosaur Extinction
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact. Shells’ chemistry shifted to respond to influx of carbon into the…
Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ With Almost No Oxygen to Sustain Life May Be Expanding Far Quicker Than Thought
Could Dark Carbon Be Hiding the True Scale of Ocean ‘Dead Zones’? Dead zones within the world’s oceans — where there is almost no oxygen…
Solving the Mystery of Carbon on Ocean Floor That Has Confounded Researchers
University of Delaware study finds direct links between old carbon, graphite, and seafloor hydrothermal vents. For years, researchers looking at seafloor sediments would find bits…
First Comprehensive Global Picture of the Mutual Prediction of Atmosphere and Ocean
World-renowned climate scientist J. Shukla calls the new paper by University of Maryland scientists ‘a very important paper in the history of predictability research.’ University…
Scientists Warn: Nine Climate Tipping Points Now ‘Active’ – Could Threaten the Existence of Human Civilization
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active,” a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the…
Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables Make Superb Seismic Network
Test under Monterey Bay shows undersea fiber-optic cables can detect quakes, fault systems. Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day…
Animals Including Sharks, Penguins and Turtles Can Help Humans Monitor Oceans
Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags. Thousands of marine animals are…
Bad News for Nemo: Species Can’t Adapt to Rapid Environmental Changes
The beloved anemone fish popularized by the movies “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory” don’t have the genetic capacity to adapt to rapid changes in their…
Sentinel-6/Jason-CS Earth Satellite Mission Will Track Rising Oceans Into 2030
Earth’s climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of those changes on our future. For the first time,…
New and Strange Climate Pattern Includes More Violent El Nino Swings
Compelling Hard Evidence: El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to…
Growth Rates of Deep-Sea Coral Communities Revealed for the First Time
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU)…
98% of Plastics Entering the Oceans Go Missing Each Year – Here’s the Likely Culprit
Trillions of plastic fragments are afloat at sea, which cause large “garbage patches” to form in rotating ocean currents called subtropical gyres. As a result,…