Exploring the ocean’s thin skin
The uppermost layer of the oceans is a very special but as yet little explored part of the planet. Less ...
Tag: Oceans
Save Our Seas Foundation joins Shark Conservation Fund to save sharks and secure healthy oceans
The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has joined the Shark Conservation Fund (SCF) as one of its members. Dr James ...
Experiments measure freezing point of extraterrestrial oceans to aid search for life
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits ...
Warming oceans are getting louder
American Geophysical Union 24 March 2022 AGU Release No. 22-20 For Immediate Release Credit: NOAA American Geophysical Union 24 March 2022 AGU ...
As oceans warm, marine cold spells are disappearing
WASHINGTON—Marine cold spells are cold versions of heat waves: periods of exceptionally cold water, able to hurt or help the ...
Relief for Oceans and Landfills?
More than eight million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year—a serious danger for the environment and ...
Gabon provides blueprint for protecting oceans
Gabon's network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) provides a blueprint that could be used in many other countries, experts say. ...
New research links continents to key transitions in Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and climate
A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and Michigan Tech geologist Chad Deering advances the ...
One sea to many oceans: First of its kind study on oxygen flow and its role in sustaining life globally
MUNICH — The Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland is often referred to as a ‘lung of the deep ocean’ ...
Coral skeleton formation rate determines resilience to acidifying oceans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Credit: Pupa Gilbert FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/27/22 CONTACT: Pupa Gilbert, [email protected] READ ON THE WEB: https://news.wisc.edu/coral-skeleton-formation-rate-determines-resilience-to-acidifying-oceans/ ...
Study probes Earth’s turbulent past to explain where oceans came from
The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the ...
ERC grant on CO2 uptake by the oceans
Jason Hearst has been given support to investigate how the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean is affected ...
Microplastic pollution linger in rivers for years before entering oceans
Microplastics can deposit and linger within riverbeds for as long as seven years before washing into the ocean, a new ...
Researchers find low oxygen and sulfide in the oceans played greater role in ancient mass exteinction
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University researchers have new insight into the complicated puzzle of environmental conditions that characterized the ...
Smaller fish species dominate warmer, oxygen-poor oceans
Fossil fish bones in marine sediments off Peru suggest that smaller fish species will dominate the oceans of a warmer ...
Disrupting flow of wood from rivers to oceans impacts marine environments
Ellen Wohl has always been fascinated by what happens in the deep sea. She studies interactions between rivers and water, ...
Volcanic fertilization of the oceans drove severe mass extinction, say scientists
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling ...
Did Venus ever have oceans?
The planet Venus can be seen as the Earth’s evil twin. At first sight, it is of comparable mass and ...
Climate model shows that Venus could never have had oceans
Whether Venus, one of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, ever had oceans remains an unsolved puzzle. Although an American ...
Arctic Ocean’s ‘last ice area’ may not survive the century
With warming climate, summer sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking fast, and now consistently spans less than half ...
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Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
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Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather
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The Cinderella Project: The right to see yourself in the mirror and like what you see
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Long-duration energy storage beats the challenge of week-long wind-power lulls
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Simple, inexpensive diagnostic technology to combat global threat of African Swine Fever
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Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot