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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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

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

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

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

Ocean's carbon dioxide uptake reduced by climate change

(PhysOrg.com) -- How deep is the ocean's capacity to buffer against climate change? As one of the planet's largest single carbon absorbers, the ocean takes up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

NOAA study suggests aerosols might be inhibiting global warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that tiny particles that make their way all the way up into the stratosphere may be offsetting a global ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question

(PhysOrg.com) -- The release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago has been linked to the greatest change in global climate since a dinosaur-killing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Global warming pause linked to sulfur in China

Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 40

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

Earth is getting dustier, model suggests

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the house seems dustier than it used to be, it may not be a reflection on your housekeeping skills. The amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists detect huge carbon 'burp' that helped end last ice age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (31) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Study gives clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age

(PhysOrg.com) -- New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period. It turns out it ended up in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | 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

Unprecedented, man-made trends in ocean's acidity

Recent carbon dioxide emissions have pushed the level of seawater acidity far above the range of the natural variability that existed for thousands of years, affecting the calcification rates of shell-forming ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 29 | with audio podcast