Oceanography

Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice Getting Thicker?

continuing to expand, albeit at the relatively slow rate of about one to two percent per decade, while Arctic ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 3 2014 - 12:30pm

Bacteria's Role In Long-Term Ocean Carbon Storage

doing so he will extend his focus to include the soil ecosystem: "Even less is known about which ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2015 - 10:00am

It's A Brand New Planktonic World

this adventure is also about showing people all over the world how important the ocean is for our own ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2015 - 3:56pm

During Ice Age Cycles, Weathering And River Discharge Were Surprisingly Constant

about river-to-ocean flow from an ensemble of climate models and calculated the average discharge from ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2015 - 1:01pm

Estimate Claims Plastic In 99 Percent Of Seabirds By 2050- But Accuracy Of The Baseline Is Unclear

areas where there was the greatest diversity of species. "We are very concerned about species such ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2015 - 11:30am

Fertilizing Oceans With Iron- A Dumb Idea That Won't Help

careful about thinking we can use artificial fertilization to combat climate change."  source: The ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 9:31am

Greenland Melting Tied To Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice, Blamed On Global Warming

holds an enormous volume of frozen water, and the global sea level would rise about 20 to 23 feet if it ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2016 - 8:00am

Can Seeding the Ocean With Iron Help Prevent Climate Change?

climate change — “might” being the key word. We simply don’t know enough about the long-term effects of ...

Blog Post - Megan Nichols - Jul 22 2017 - 6:41pm

420 Million Years Ago, Oxygen Depletion Caused A Mass Extinction That Out Wiped 23 Percent Of All Marine Animals

urgent concerns about the ruinous fate that could befall our modern oceans if well-established trends of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2019 - 4:35pm

Arctic Ice September 2010

impossible. Until about 1900 ice extended along the east coast of Greenland down around Cape Farvel and up ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 3 2010 - 4:11pm