Biology Climate Change Physiology
The Seventh Sense: Catfish Sense pH Changes
Some catfish aren't just limited to the traditional five senses - instead, they have a unique adaptation to sense pH…
Category: Climate Change
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Human impacts
Fight of the Century: CO2 vs. Calcifying Phytoplankton
From the very first sentence of the abstract, these scientists make clear they are not messing around, "Ocean acidification is…
Climate Change Human impacts
Could increasing CO2 be decreasing human nutrition?
The increase in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations may be causing major food crops, like wheat, to have lower amounts of…
Climate Change Sea-level Rise
Tipping the Domino in East Antarctica
Researchers use modeling experiments to understand the conditions necessary for irreversible melting in East Antarctica, a region previously thought to…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries
How will climate change affect coastal fisheries production?
Forecasted impacts of climate changes on fisheries production in coastal ecosystems suggest modest changes on average with significant increases in…
Climate Change
Arctic Feels Hotter than Other Parts of the World
Speaking of climate change, you can easily picture a scene in which big ice sheets are melting and poor polar…
Climate Change Paleoceanography
Just How Permanent was El Niño in the Past?
New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…
Climate Change
Coral larvae will stay at their birth reef in warmer seas
New research suggests that global warming is leaving large coral reef systems less interconnected, which can affect their ability to…
Biology Climate Change Paleoceanography
Ironing Out the Details of the Last Ice Age
"Give me a half tanker of iron and I will give you an ice age!", as was once said by…
Biology Climate Change
Hooded seals of the Greenland Sea
Hooded seals have been hunted for centuries in the North Atlantic. Despite increased regulation over the last three decades, a…
Biology Climate Change Ecology Geology Paleoceanography
Hello Glaciers, Goodbye Winds!
With the intensification of glaciation in the northern hemisphere approximately 2.7 million years ago, the prominent westerly wind belts responded…
Biology Climate Change
Fatter Whales Float Better
North Atlantic right whales are giant marine mammals that rely on their blubber to store energy, stay warm, and float.…
Climate Change Human impacts Policy
Can’t we all just get along! Bridging the gap between climate scientists and decision-makers to help prevent precipitation-related catastrophes
Climate scientists and humanitarian organizations are implementing a plan to help predict major precipitation-related disasters, such as floods, by focusing…
Chemistry Climate Change
Reevaluating of Hydrate-Controlled Methane Seepage from Study off Svalbard
Methane, which is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, has been a great concern as climate change…
Climate Change
A Cool Breeze Amidst Global Warming
Climate scientists have affirmed that we are currently in a warming hiatus, similar to the 1940s - 1970s, where global…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography
We didn’t start the fire!… that changed the southeast Australian landscape 44 thousand years ago
A sediment core suggests that the large ecosystem changes that occurred in southeastern Australia were caused by the extinction of…
Climate Change Geology Paleoceanography
Reconstructing climate history from sediments in the Gulf of Taranto, Italy
What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography
Why lions can thank wildfires for the African Savanna
Sediment records show that wildfires caused the initial expansion of grasslands in Africa during the Miocene (8 million years ago)…
Biology Chemistry Climate Change
Is Aragonite Saturation State (Ωa) the Best Way to Describe Calcification Rate?
Nearly every scientific report concerning the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs describes changes in calcification as a function…
Biology Climate Change
Growing Like a Seaweed: How ocean acidification is aiding the growth and expansion of macroalgae.
While calcifying organisms like corals and bivalves are projected to struggle under future levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), non-calcifying seaweeds…