While vacationers might enjoy the Mediterranean Sea's summer warmth, climate scientists are warning of dire consequences for its marine life as it burns up in a series of severe heat waves.
Environment
Aug 21, 2022
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The world's oceans are absorbing more than 90% of the excess heat and energy generated by rising greenhouse gas emissions.
Ecology
Aug 18, 2022
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The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, and in some areas as much as seven times. That's according to new research by a group of Norwegian scientists. This effect, dubbed "Arctic amplification," ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2022
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Climate change is a complicated phenomenon with a variety of both abrupt and gradual effects that scientists are working hard to uncover. Emerging findings on how various ecosystems are responding to a changing climate, stemming ...
Ecology
Aug 17, 2022
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In Charleston, a place where street lines blur with sunny day tidal flooding and major storms dump enough water on downtown that one can kayak the deluge, Dale Morris is right at home.
Environment
Aug 16, 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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Saildrones, so-called "robot surfboards," will be guided into hurricanes in the Atlantic for the second straight year, with the goal of improving storm forecasts.
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2022
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French officials are moving ahead with a delicate plan to transport a beluga whale back to the ocean after it swam far up the Seine river toward Paris, putting its life in danger, a marine expert said Tuesday.
Ecology
Aug 9, 2022
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In a monumental field expedition, a team of researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) collected more than 3,000 samples of microbes and microbiomes present ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2022
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A malnourished beluga whale that has swum up France's River Seine is no longer progressing but is still alive, environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday.
Ecology
Aug 8, 2022
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