Trouble in paradise: Ocean acidification this way comes
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.---Shakespeare, Macbeth
Environment
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News tagged with tropical seas
As our planet gets greener, plants are slowing global warming
Chi Chen, a Boston University graduate researcher, and Ranga Myneni, a BU College of Arts & Sciences professor of earth and environment, released a new paper that reveals how humans are helping to increase the Earth's plant ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2020
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NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satellite
A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth's poles for the first time.
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2024
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'100-year' floods will happen every 1 to 30 years, according to new flood maps
A 100-year flood is supposed to be just that: a flood that occurs once every 100 years, or a flood that has a one-percent chance of happening every year.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2019
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Wind and rain belts to shift north as planet warms, research says
As humans continue to heat the planet, a northward shift of Earth's wind and rain belts could make a broad swath of regions drier, including the Middle East, American West and Amazonia, while making Monsoon Asia and equatorial ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2013
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Climate-fuelled flooding to imperil 300 million by 2050
Coastal areas currently home to 300 million people will be vulnerable by 2050 to flooding made worse by climate change, no matter how aggressively humanity curbs carbon emissions, scientists have warned.
Environment
Oct 29, 2019
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Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans
Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned.
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2020
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Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)
Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night.
Environment
Oct 25, 2021
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As seas get warmer, tropical species are moving further from the equator
Climate change is causing tropical species in the ocean to move from the equator towards the poles, while temperate species recede. This mass movement of marine life, termed tropicalization, is leading to a cascade of consequences ...
Ecology
Dec 2, 2023
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Volcanic eruptions found to dampen Indian Ocean El Niño events for up to 8 years
Volcanic eruptions occurring in tropical regions (23°N/S of the equator) have been linked to abrupt disruption of global-scale climate cycles in the Indian Ocean over the last 1 million years in new research published in ...
