Researchers around the globe are sounding the alarm: ocean temperatures are the warmest ever recorded. In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute's Biological ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2024
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Beneath the waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world's "last coral refuge" as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say.
Ecology
Oct 10, 2022
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An international committee of experts will meet this month to begin the implementation of a new observing system for the study of the Southern Ocean.
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2012
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are phytoplankton colonies that may harm aquatic ecosystem and human health. The fish die-offs, shellfish closures and reluctance among consumers to eat seafood often caused by these blooms costs ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2022
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Microalgae in sediments signal what happened in the environment thousands of years ago, illuminating the range of future climate-change impacts.
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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Methane escaping from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines that run between Russia and Europe is likely to result in the biggest known gas leak to take place over a short period of time and highlights the problem of large methane ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2022
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Professor Rob Hale of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science is lead author of a new "Grand Challenges" paper commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2020
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Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species ...
Ecology
Apr 12, 2022
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New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and collaborators found that most marine life in Marine Protected Areas will not be able to tolerate warming ocean temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Environment
May 7, 2018
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A group of researchers have studied the history of drought in the Pacific Northwest during the last 6,000 years, a time that spans the mid-Holocene geological epoch to the present. The goal of the research was to improve ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2011
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