Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...
New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...
Yesterday, an international team of researchers from various disciplines set off aboard the German research vessel METEOR for an expedition along the west coast of Africa, led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz ...
It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team ...
From massive global sea level rises to disruption of regional climates, discover the impacts if Greenland's ice sheet completely ...
A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved. The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two decades of negotiations, then ratification by more than ...
Research Spotlights What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair ...
As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...
Earth’s oceans are perhaps the most beautiful and awe-inspiring natural areas on the planet, but they also hold some of the most dangerous environments. The wild seas are home to a host of hazards, ...
Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...
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