Oceanography
- Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise This Century? That's Not A Consensus
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There’s a new study that’s getting a fair amount of attention in the climate science community and the popular press. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2015 - 8:14am
- World Glacier Monitoring Service Says Melting Is Faster Than Ever
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The World Glacier Monitoring Service, which compiles the results of worldwide glacier observations in annual calls-for-data, has compiled such data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Now they have published a new analysis of global glacier changes ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2015 - 8:30am
- Estimate Claims Plastic In 99 Percent Of Seabirds By 2050- But Accuracy Of The Baseline Is Unclear
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Researchers from CSIRO and Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is for the world's seabirds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and penguins, and found the majority of seabird species have plastic in their gut. T ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2015 - 11:30am
- The Industrial Revolution Ended 1,800 Years Of Ocean Cooling
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The high frequency and magnitude of volcanic eruptions could have been the cause of the progressive cooling of ocean surfaces over a period of 1,800 years, according to a new study. The study emphasizes that this trend came to an end with the beginning of ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2015 - 9:00am
- Carbon Sink Reborn: Oceanic CO2 Uptake Is Back
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As you all know, the ecosystem is like a giant human anti-lung- it breathes in the CO2 we exhale and helps produce oxygen. It turns out that the Southern Ocean seasonally absorbs significantly more CO2 than they release, higher than previous estimates. Mo ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2015 - 7:58am
- Ocean Circulation Rethink Solves Global Cooling Conundrum
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Researchers from the University of Exeter believe they have solved one of the biggest puzzles in climate science. The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, explains the synchrony observed during glacial periods when low temperatures in the Southern O ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2015 - 8:01am
- New Surfaces Delay Ice Formation
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If you've ever waited on an airport runway for your plane to be de-iced, had to remove all your food so the freezer could defrost, or arrived late to work because you had to scrape the sheet of ice off your car windshield, you know that ice can cause ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2015 - 7:30am
- Coral Worth $10 Trillion In Pretend Money
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A pilot Earth Index commissioned by BBC Earth using data from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) sets a new standard for estimating pretend money. It values coral at $10 trillion for the global economy ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 9 2015 - 6:30am
- Sea Turtles Face Plastic Pollution Peril
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A new global review led by the University of Exeter that set out to investigate the hazards of marine plastic pollution has warned that all seven species of marine turtles can ingest or become entangled in the discarded debris that currently litters the o ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 10:53am
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Plumbing System Revealed
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Pioneering new research sheds light on the impact of climate change on subglacial lakes found under the Greenland ice sheet. A team of experts, led by Dr Steven Palmer from the University of Exeter, has studied the water flow paths from one such subglacia ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2015 - 11:49am
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