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…
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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…
Chemistry Geology
A Song of Ice, Fire, and Climate: Could Warming Seas Release Methane from Beneath the Seafloor?
In 2008, scientists were troubled to find methane bubbling up from marine sediments off the coast of a string of…
Chemistry
Sea ice leads cause changes in mercury and ozone levels in the Arctic
In our changing climate, the opening and closing of sea-ice is occurring more frequently, resulting from thick perennial Arctic sea…
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…
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…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries
Cooked fish: Ocean warming and global fisheries
Global fisheries are expected to change as ocean temperatures warm. A recent study by Cheung et al. uses mean temperature…
Climate Change
Aquaculture as a means of food and protection?
The low lying coast of Bangladesh is burdened with natural weather patterns that bring storm surges, heavy rainfall, and intense…
Biology Chemistry Climate Change
How will phytoplankton communities change in a warming world?
A global marine ecosystem model was used to predict how primary productivity and carbon export by phytoplankton will change in…
Geology
Catastrophic floods or drought? What caused the water level drop of glacial Lake Agassiz?
Formed from the meltwater of a colossal ice sheet that once blanketed North America, glacial Lake Agassiz experienced a sudden…