What's living beneath the waves? It's a question many Southern California swimmers and surfers ponder when they visit the beach.
Ecology
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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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,If you take a plunge in the sea this winter, you might notice it's warmer than you expect. And if you're fishing off Sydney and catch a tropical coral trout, you might wonder what's going on.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2023
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They're small, but they're mighty. From producing oxygen we breathe to soaking up carbon we emit to feeding fish we eat, tiny phytoplankton are a crucial part of ocean ecosystems and essential to life as we know it on Earth. ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 23, 2023
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Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.
Environment
Jun 21, 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 world's first international treaty to protect the high seas was adopted Monday at the United Nations, creating a landmark environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to humanity.
Environment
Jun 19, 2023
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Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water ...
Astrobiology
Jun 18, 2023
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