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One-Two Punch: Sea Urchins Stuck Belly-Up in Low-Oxygen Hot Water

Dec. 10, 2020 — Low oxygen seawater (hypoxia) may be more stressful to reef organisms than high water temperatures and ocean acidity, which are usually considered the most serious stressors associated with global ...

Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic

Dec. 7, 2020 — A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central ...

Coasts Drown as Coral Reefs Collapse Under Warming and Acidification

Dec. 3, 2020 — The coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify. The rate of erosion of calcium carbonate on ...

Researchers Discover Life in Deep Ocean Sediments at or Above Water's Boiling Point

Dec. 3, 2020 — Biologists found single-celled organisms living in sediments 1180 meters beneath the ocean at temperatures of 120 degrees ...

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Can Sting Rays and Electric Rays Help Us Map the Ocean Floor?

Dec. 9, 2020 — Researchers have completed a feasibility study indicating that electric rays and sting rays equipped with pingers will be able to map the seabed through natural ...

New-Found Phenomenon That May Improve Hurricane Forecasts

Dec. 9, 2020 — Rapid storm intensification and decay remain a challenge for hurricane forecasts. Many factors are involved and some of them are either poorly known or not yet identified. One such factor appears to ...

Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Likely to Intensify as Climate Warms

Dec. 9, 2020 — Polar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The results describe how the winds are likely to intensify and migrate poleward ...

New Geological Findings from Eastern Fennoscandia Add New Dimensions to the History of European Ice

Dec. 7, 2020 — In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, glacial cycle that ...

Java's Protective Mangroves Smothered by Plastic Waste

Dec. 7, 2020 — The mangrove forests on Java's north coast are slowly suffocating in plastic waste. The plastic problem in northeast Asia is huge and a growing threat to the region's mangroves; a natural alley ...

The Climate Changed Rapidly Alongside Sea Ice Decline in the North

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers have shown that abrupt climate change occurred as a result of widespread decrease of sea ice. This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt ...

Robot Fleet Dives for Climate Answers in 'Marine Snow'

Dec. 3, 2020 — Sailing from Hobart, twenty researchers hope to capture the most detailed picture yet of how marine life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the ...

Satellite-Tagged Bottles Show Promise for Tracking Plastic Litter Through Rivers

Dec. 2, 2020 — A new study demonstrates the potential for plastic bottles tagged with tracking devices to deepen our understanding of how plastic pollution moves ...

Once in a Lifetime Floods to Become Regular Occurrences by End of Century

Dec. 2, 2020 — Superstorm Sandy brought flood-levels to the New York region that had not been seen in generations. Now, due to the impact of climate change, researchers have found that 100-year and 500-year flood ...

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Greenland Ice Sheet Faces Irreversible Melting

Dec. 2, 2020 — Scientists predict Greenland ice sheet will pass a threshold beyond which it will never fully regrow and sea levels will be permanently higher in as little as 600 years under ...