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Tropical Cyclones Moving Faster in Recent Decades

Oct. 19, 2020 — Tropical cyclones, regionally known as hurricanes or typhoons, have been moving across ocean basins faster since 1982, according to a new ...

Lost and Found: Geologists 'Resurrect' Missing Tectonic Plate

Oct. 20, 2020 — A team of geologists believes they have found the lost plate known as Resurrection in northern Canada by using existing mantle tomography ...

Microbial Diversity Below Seafloor Is as Rich as on Earth's Surface

Oct. 20, 2020 — For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. The research team discovered that microbial diversity in the dark, ...

Depths of the Weddell Sea Are Warming Five Times Faster Than Elsewhere

Oct. 20, 2020 — Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at depths exceeding 2,000 ...

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Early-Arriving Endangered Chinook Salmon Take the Brunt of Sea Lion Predation

Oct. 19, 2020 — A new study found that sea lions have the largest negative effect on early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia ...

Marine Protected Area Urged for Antarctica Peninsula

Oct. 18, 2020 — Species on the Antarctic Peninsula are threatened by climate change and human activities including commercial fishing, tourism, and research ...

Declines in Shellfish Species on Rocky Seashores Match Climate-Driven Changes

Oct. 20, 2020 — Mussels, barnacles, and snails are declining in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new article by biologists. Their 20-year dataset reveals that the ...

Driver of the Largest Mass Extinction in the History of the Earth Identified

Oct. 19, 2020 — 252 million years ago, at the transition from the Permian to the Triassic epoch, most of the life forms existing on Earth became extinct. Using ...

Deep Sea Coral Time Machines Reveal Ancient CO2 Burps

Oct. 16, 2020 — The fossilized remains of ancient deep-sea corals may act as time machines providing new insights into the effect the ocean has on rising CO2 ...

Arctic Ocean Sediments Reveal Permafrost Thawing During Past Climate Warming

Oct. 16, 2020 — Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can reveal how permafrost responds to climate warming. Researchers have found evidence of past permafrost ...

Long-Term Data Show a Recent Acceleration in Chemical and Physical Changes in the Ocean

Oct. 16, 2020 — New research uses data from two sustained open-ocean hydrographic stations in the North Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda to demonstrate recent changes in ...

Recent Atlantic Ocean Warming Unprecedented in Nearly 3,000 Years

Oct. 14, 2020 — Sediments from a lake in the Canadian High Arctic allow climate scientists to extend the record of Atlantic sea-surface temperature from about 100 to 2,900 years. It shows that the warmest interval ...

Modern Humans Took Detours on Their Way to Europe

Oct. 14, 2020 — Favourable climatic conditions influenced the sequence of settlement movements of Homo sapiens in the Levant on their way from Africa to Europe. In a first step, modern humans settled along the coast ...

Plastics Threat to South Pacific Seabirds Confirmed

Oct. 14, 2020 — Plastic gathered from remote corners of the South Pacific Ocean, including nesting areas of New Zealand albatrosses, has confirmed the global threat of plastic pollution to ...