New research led by Cardiff University has shown that under a 'business-as-usual' scenario of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, ocean acidification is likely to hit unprecedented levels.
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2018
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A world-first global analysis of marine responses to climbing human CO2 emissions has painted a grim picture of future fisheries and ocean ecosystems.
Environment
Oct 12, 2015
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Pioneering techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionise the way that marine biologists and climate scientists study the ocean. This new approach, that will be published on the 17 ...
Environment
Feb 16, 2015
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One third of the world's food-producing land has been lost in the past 40 years as a result of soil degradation, putting global food security at risk.
Ecology
Mar 09, 2015
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A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions did not lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and also demonstrates that Earth's oceans are capable of absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide—provided it is released gradually ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2016
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University of Bristol Cabot Institute researchers and their colleagues today published research that further documents the unprecedented rate of environmental change occurring today, compared to that which occurred during ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 05, 2016
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Shelled marine creatures living in increasingly acidified oceans face a fight for survival as the impacts of climate change spread, a new study suggests.
Environment
Oct 15, 2018
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Oceanographers from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution report that the northeast Pacific Ocean has absorbed an increasing amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide over the last decade, at a rate that mirrors the increase ...
Environment
Sep 07, 2016
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As temperatures rise in the Arctic, permafrost, or frozen ground, is thawing. As it does, greenhouse gases trapped within it are being released into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide and methane, leading to previously ...
Environment
Dec 12, 2018
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A milky white cloud blooms in the Barents Sea, so vast it can be seen from space.
Environment
Jul 11, 2016
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