Warming Climate Brings Sea Level Rise, Land Loss and Marine Migrations to...
Europe’s seas are changing at an unprecedented rate, much faster than climate scientists anticipated. Seawater temperatures have been rising around 10-times faster than average over the past 25 years,...
View ArticleWashington State Pushed to Recognize Threat of Ocean Acidification to Coastal...
Ocean acidification is receiving greater attention from marine scientists as ocean waters worldwide have been found to be getting more acidic. Absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,...
View ArticleAnalogues from Earth’s Past Bode Ill for Coral Reefs, Marine Ecosystems
In a bid to anticipate the effects of a warming world, climate scientists around the world are scouring the geological record for modern-day analogues – periods of Earth history when the concentration...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Climate Warming 55 MYA was Geologically Instantaneous
New research into past changes in climate indicates that global warming can take place much more suddenly than previously thought – over the course of only about 13 years. Temperatures at high...
View ArticleDead-Zone Nutrient Reduction Target Pushed Out to 2035
As the Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” attests, excessive amounts of nitrogen, phosphorous and other plant nutrients – runoff from farms, ranches, industrial plants, towns and cities – is one of the U.S.’...
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