Oceanography

Are Loss Projections Of Ice Sheets In Greenland And The Antarctic High Or Low? Yes

measurements showed that both ice sheets are losing significant amounts of ice- about 300 billion tons per ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2013 - 1:26pm

Moss And Microbes Reveal Impact Of Warming Antarctic Peninsula

in about 1860. By analyzing core samples of that moss bank, they were able to characterize the growth ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2013 - 2:10pm

Can Climate Change Make Atlantic Deep Ocean Circulation Unstable?

and concomitant deep ocean circulation of about 125,000 years ago. This is the last interglacial ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 4:15pm

Baltic Sea Oxygen Depletion 10X Worse Than A Century Ago

they extend to 60,000 km2 – or about one and a half times the total area of Denmark.  A new paper has ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 2:22am

Corals Adjust Quickly To Rising Ocean Temperatures

transplanted to the hot pool became more heat-tolerant. Although these corals were only about half as ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2014 - 10:00pm

Aquatic Algae Adapt, And Use A Wider Range Of Light Than Land Kinds

adapt. Typically about 20 percent of a plant's genes are regulated by phytochromes and the ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 10:09am

Deep Sea Fish Remove 1 Million Tons Of CO2 Annually From North Atlantic Waters

ecosystem services is important when we make decisions about how to exploit deep water habitats for food, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 10:57pm

Sea Level Rise In Western Tropical Pacific Will Be Caused By Man

Philippines and northeast Australia are being raised by about 1 centimeter per year due to anthropogenic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 7:00pm

Ghost Fishing: How To Prevent Lost Traps

assumptions about gear degradation. Source: NOAA Headquarters ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2014 - 11:00am

Thinner Too: Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Sixth Lowest On Record

trend; the Arctic Ocean is losing about 13 percent of its sea ice per decade. To measure sea ice extent, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 9:44am