Fisheries
A Worrisome Species Shift in the Humboldt Current
By examining ancient fish bones buried in sediments, researchers caution about a potential collapse of anchovy fisheries.
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Climate Change
A Small Pool Makes a Big Splash
Researchers find evidence that a small region in warm waters in the western Pacific could have played a big role…
Climate Change Paleoceanography
Can clays from northern Canada provide a 3,000-year temperature record of the Atlantic Ocean?
A sediment record from a lake in northern Canada is being used to reconstruct Atlantic Ocean temperatures at a resolution…
Book Review Climate Change
The Indian Ocean Dipole: How Climate Change affects South East Asia and Beyond
Extreme weather patterns in South East Asia and West Africa devastate local communities. Scientists study historical climate of the region…
Climate Change
Skating on Thin Ice
Newly developed global climate models show us that Arctic Sea ice may be more unstable than we previously thought. The…
Paleoceanography
How much heat is stored in the oceans: Insights from ice cores
Reviewing: Shackleton, S., et al. “Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial.” Nature geoscience 13.1 (2020): 77-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0 Water…
Paleoceanography
Can bumps in the seafloor explain glacial-interglacial cycles?
The best scientific theories bring lots of things together in unexpected ways. This one has ice ages, seafloor volcanoes, sea…
Climate Change
Was the California drought the worst in history?
California has seen longer droughts and drier years in the past, but a new reconstruction shows that 2012-2015 was the…