A new study highlights the importance of reducing fossil fuel combustion, not only to curb the trend of global warming, but also to improve the quality of China's coastal waters. The findings were recently published in Environmental ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2020
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Coastal plant communities are a crucial element of global sea defences but are increasingly threatened by the human-induced effects of climate change, according to new research.
Environment
Feb 3, 2020
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As Egypt marks the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal, marine biologists are bemoaning one of the famed waterway's lesser known legacies—the invasion of hundreds of non-native species, including toxic jellyfish ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2020
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The rate of coastal erosion around the UK is expected to increase substantially in the future, according to a new study by the University of Plymouth.
Environment
Jan 15, 2020
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Atlantic purple sea urchins are common in coastal waters along the East Coast, and University of Rhode Island scientist Coleen Suckling thinks the Ocean State could become the home of a new industry to raise the spiny marine ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2020
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Coastal wetlands provide stunning views and are hosts to a vast array of biodiversity. But they also provide another service to the warming Earth: they capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in their sediment ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2019
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In recent years, scientists have projected increasingly large summer dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay, areas where there is little or no oxygen for living things like crabs and fish to thrive, even as long-term efforts to ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2019
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Permafrost coasts make up about one third of the Earth's total coastline. As a result of accelerated climate change, whole sections of coastline rapidly thaw, and erode into the Arctic Ocean. A new study published in the ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2019
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Because of climate change, rising sea levels could affect hundreds of millions more people in the coming decades than previously understood, with an estimated 150 million people currently living on land that will be below ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2019
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The UN chief on Saturday warned Asia to quit its "addiction" to coal, as climate change threatens hundreds of millions of people vulnerable to rising sea levels across the region.
Environment
Nov 3, 2019
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