(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled reactors ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2012
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Fossil fuel emissions are impacting corals through high temperatures which can cause their deaths and ocean acidification which makes it difficult for them to produce their skeletons. In a study published today in Global ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2013
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Increasing acidity in the sea's waters may fundamentally change how nitrogen is cycled in them, say marine scientists who published their findings in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2010
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A new study investigates whether protecting and restoring large animal wildlife can help to support climate change goals.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2022
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When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find that domestic animal diseases were killing them.
Environment
Feb 20, 2012
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Diatoms—tiny phytoplankton that are responsible for a fifth of all energy converted into matter by plants—may have become important much earlier in the development of Earth's ocean ecosystems and carbon cycle than previously ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2021
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Over the past few decades, the scientific understanding of El Nino has grown increasingly complex. Traditionally viewed as a periodic warming focused largely in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, El Nino is associated ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2012
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Much more oxygen than previously thought is transported deep into the ocean interior through a 'trap door" in the Labrador Sea that some researchers say could be closing as a result of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2020
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How do we go from protecting eight percent of marine areas to 30 percent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend aiming to save marine ecosystems under threat from overfishing, ...
Ecology
Feb 4, 2023
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The ocean is a major influence on the world's climate and must be included in modelling to predict future climate change.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2018
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