Oceanography

Focus on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has led to a lot of confusion among the public: bad storms are caused by global warming but a lack of warming is not. There may be a reason things don't…

Though the continental United States hasn't had a major hurricane in almost 10 years, the rest of the world hasn't been so lucky. Japan just had a typhoon, India a cyclone, and, with Gonzalo, Bermuda…

A new computer model has estimated ocean circulation during the last ice age, about 21,000 year ago, and believe that icebergs and meltwater from the North American ice sheet would have…

Antarctic sea ice reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late…

Worth it for cheap cotton? Credit:so11e/flckr, CC BY-NC-ND By Anson Mackay, University College London The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA…

Ice sheets were never simple. There is no magic knob that could be turned to optimize melting rates and movement, outside environmental press releases. A new paper in Nature this week shows that not…

Farm runoff and urban pollution in the Hawaiian islands is causing sea turtle tumors, according to a study in PeerJ. The paper by researchers at  Duke University, the University of Hawaii and…

There is less saline in Nordic Seas but that can't be blamed on more Arctic waters due to global warming. Instead, it is that the Gulf Stream has provided less salt.  The Nordic Seas have…

It may already be too late to stop Antarctic ice sliding into the ocean. Credit: EPA By Eelco Rohling, University of Southampton Ice sheets respond slowly to changes in climate, because they are so…

Ice ebbs and flows, that is no secret - but lost in claims that ice is as widespread as ever is the reality that it is now thinner, and the difference is so noticeable the Gravity field and steady-…