The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Christopher Glein has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of ...
Astrobiology
Jun 14, 2023
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Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere?
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2023
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Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the ocean around Antarctica, which could reverberate across the planet and intensify global warming, are happening decades "ahead of schedule", ...
Environment
May 28, 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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Scientists have discovered the cause of giant underwater landslides in Antarctica, which they believe could have generated tsunami waves that stretched across the Southern Ocean.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2023
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Last summer, we traveled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, sea water and ice algae ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2023
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The world's oceans absorb approximately a quarter of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. During absorption, CO2 reacts with seawater and oceanic pH levels fall. This is known as ocean acidification and results in lower carbon ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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The North Pacific "Garbage Patch" is home to an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste it has become famous for, according to a study by Rebecca Helm from Georgetown University, U.S., and colleagues. ...
Ecology
May 4, 2023
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With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb".
Environment
May 4, 2023
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I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth—the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. The presence ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2023
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