When polar seas freeze and ice forms, it is not only due to cold air chilling the surface of the water. Even more important is that warm water is prevented from rising to the surface from the depths of the ocean, due to the ...
Earth Sciences
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The North American southwest has been suffering through weather extremes in recent years ranging from searing heat waves and scorching wildfires to monsoon rainfalls that cause flash floods and mudslides.
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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Upper ocean heating in the equatorial Pacific—a key oceanographic region in Earth's climate system—is likely to make the East Asian monsoon season wetter, according to a study co-authored by a Rutgers researcher.
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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There's more bad news for planet Earth if climate change continues unabated. New research published on October 11 in the open access journal PLOS Biology by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States ...
Ecology
Oct 11, 2022
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A large international team of researchers has found, via historical review, that parts of the planet that now experience occasional megadroughts may be changing to become permanently dry. In their paper published in the journal ...
Corals live symbiotically with a variety of microscopic algae that provide most of the energy corals require, and some algae can make coral more resilient to heat stress. In assessing one of the main reef builders in Hawai'i, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2022
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The coral reefs of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean are richly diverse ecosystems of global importance. These regions contain more than 10% of the world's reefs and host hundreds of fish species, and they provide more ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2022
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Molecular fossils and machine learning have enabled scientists to build the first charts of Antarctic ocean temperatures over the past 45 million years, offering important insights into future sea level changes.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2022
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In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatures: Less oxygen dissolves in warmer water, and the tropical ocean's layers ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2022
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It's not just the land that is groaning under the heat—the ocean is also suffering from heatwaves. In the Mediterranean Sea along the Italian and Spanish coasts, for example, water temperatures are currently up to 5 °C ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2022
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