News tagged with oceanic carbon

Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic

The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who set sail from the UK today (1 June), venturing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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New study provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provid ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Sea lions fuel ocean life

Like whales, sea lions are contributing to marine ecosystems in the most fundamental way possible, research by a Flinders graduate has found.

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A NASA weather 'Eye in the Sky' marks 10 years

For 10 years, it has silently swooped through space in its orbital perch 438 miles (705 kilometers) above Earth, its nearly 2,400 spectral "eyes" peering into Earth's atmosphere, watching. But there's nothing ...

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created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover new kind of blue-green algae with carbonates in their cells

(Phys.org) -- Researchers studying organisms in Mexico's Lake Alchichica have discovered a new species of cyanobacterium that unlike any other ever found, has bony, intracellular carbonates. Up till now, specimens with such ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | 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

Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to extreme global warming events

In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

CO2 was hidden in the ocean during the Ice Age: study

Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

Ocean climate change damage to cost $2 trillion

Greenhouse gases are likely to result in annual costs of nearly $2 trillion in damage to the oceans by 2100, according to a new Swedish study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 12

Rock sleuths: Researchers seek clues to atmospheric changes ahead of animal life

For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New dataset provides 40-year record of carbon dioxide accumulation in the surface ocean

The most comprehensive dataset of surface water carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements for the world's oceans and coastal seas is launched today by an international team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Present ocean acidification rates are unprecedented: research

The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global temperatures ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

World's oceans get an acid bath

Among the repercussions of global climate change, the effect of ocean acidification on marine life is one of the least-understood variables.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Effects of sea spray geoengineering on global climate

Anthropogenic climate warming is leading to consideration of options for geoengineering to offset rising carbon dioxide levels. One potential technique involves injecting artificial sea spray into the atmosphere. The sea ...

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created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4