News tagged with global ocean

Latest Southern Ocean research shows continuing deep ocean change

New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica. Comparing detailed measurements taken during the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Earth's water cycle intensifying with atmospheric warming

A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signalling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Research discovers impact of ocean acidification on marine life

A Plymouth University academic researching the impact of ocean acidification on marine life is finding out exactly what we can expect as our seas soak up more and more carbon dioxide.

Biology / Ecology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan enters commercial space race

Japan will put a commercial satellite into space on Friday, officials said, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of contract launches.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

April 2012 heats up as 5th warmest month globally

(AP) -- Unseasonable weather pushed last month to the fifth warmest April on record worldwide, federal weather statistics show.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Solution to ancient rock puzzle posited

A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Geophysicists employ novel method to identify sources of global sea level rise

As the Earth's climate warms, a melting ice sheet produces a distinct and highly non-uniform pattern of sea-level change, with sea level falling close to the melting ice sheet and rising progressively farther away. The pattern ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

Team identifies water vulnerability in border region

The Arizona-Sonora region has been called the front line of ongoing climate change, with global climate models projecting severe precipitation decreases and temperature increases coupled with vulnerability ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bering Strait may be global temperature stabilizer

(Phys.org) -- A diverse group of climate researchers has found after running computer simulations that the strait that separates North America and Russia might be serving as a global temperature stabilizer. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 61 | with audio podcast report

Evolution in the oceans: Long-term study indicates phytoplankton can adapt to ocean acidification

Fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide has a serious impact on global climate but also a disturbing effect on the oceans, know as the other CO2 problem. When CO2 dissolves in seawater it forms carbonic acid and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Start of 2012, March shatter US heat records

(AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 151

Feds: 'Meterological March madness' mostly random

(AP) -- Freak chance was mostly to blame for the record warm March weather that gripped two-thirds of the country, with man-made global warming providing only a tiny assist, a quick federal analysis shows.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Some corals could survive a more acidic ocean

Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought – giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ocean robots help to trace ocean warming to late 19th century

A new study contrasting ocean temperature readings of the 1870s with temperatures of the modern seas reveals an upward trend of global ocean warming spanning at least 100 years.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 85 | with audio podcast

Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study

Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0