News tagged with global warning

Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans

In Washington state, oysters in some areas haven't reproduced for four years, and preliminary evidence suggests that the increasing acidity of the ocean could be the cause. In the Gulf of Mexico, falling oxygen levels in ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (63) | comments 4

Paleoecologists suggest mass extinction due to huge methane release

(PhysOrg.com) -- Micha Ruhl and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen's Nordic Center for Earth Evolution have published a paper in Science where they contend that the mass extinction that occurred at the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Team says Arctic ice shelf broke up before

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic shelf ice has been in the news of late due to its shrinkage over the past few decades that most attribute to global warning. Thus, its levels and seemingly constant calving have become ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report