When the skies above Palo Alto darkened with smoke from the Camp Fire in 2018, Stanford researcher Hayoon Chung was in a fluid mechanics lab on campus studying how ocean currents flowed over patches of seagrass. She wondered ...
General Physics
Jun 27, 2023
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Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide in the air over the past 11,000 years.
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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When a hurricane hits land, the destruction can be visible for years or even decades. Less obvious, but also powerful, is the effect hurricanes have on the oceans.
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2023
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A team of oceanographers at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, working with one colleague from Brandeis University and two from Oregon State University, has found evidence of typhoons/hurricanes ...
The potential of global seaweed farming to help capture sufficient carbon may not be feasible given the large ocean areas needed to remove between 2.5 and 13 gigatons of atmospheric carbon per year to meet climate goals, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2023
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Antarctica is a unique landscape, full of mystery and wonder. Its environments have a huge impact on the rest of the planet—on the climate, the ocean and on life itself.
Environment
May 26, 2023
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There is a massive, mineral-rich region in the Pacific Ocean—about twice the size of India—called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), which has already been divided up and assigned to companies for future deep-sea mining. ...
Ecology
May 25, 2023
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The Arctic, once again at the forefront of climate change, is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects known as Arctic amplification.
Earth Sciences
May 24, 2023
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Every few years, changes in how the ocean and atmosphere interact along the West Coast—stretching from southern California to Peru and reaching across the Pacific almost to Fiji and the Solomon Islands—determine climate ...
Environment
May 22, 2023
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Florida State University researchers have analyzed the carbon exported from surface waters of the California Current Ecosystem—the first-ever study to quantify the total carbon sequestration for a region of the ocean.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2023
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