Robots probe climate change
Hundreds of robotic instruments deployed across the South Pacific have begun to reveal dramatic new insights into the impact of climate change upon oceans in our corner of the world. One of the world's
Oceans and Seas
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Slow death of the Dead Sea: Levels of salt water are dropping by one metre every year
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors for thousands of years who come to float in its salty waters and reap its reported health benefits. But the attraction's days could be numbered after experts discovered
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Reconsidering ocean calamities
The proliferation of a number of pressures affecting the ocean is leading to a growing concern that the state of the ocean is compromised, which is driving society into pessimism. Ocean calamities are
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Early warning signals of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation collapse in a fully coupled climate model
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) exhibits two stable states in models of varying complexity. Shifts between alternative AMOC states are thought to have played a role in past abrupt
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World Parks Congress: call to extend no-take share of marine protected areas
The world's oceans need expanded regions where fishing is barred to help preserve fragile ecosystems and protect them from what one leading biologist dubbed "a silent storm" driven by climate change.
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Long-term sea-level change revisited: the role of salinity
Of the many processes contributing to long-term sea-level change, little attention has been paid to the large-scale contributions of salinity-driven halosteric changes. We evaluate observed and simulated
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Great Barrier Reef: 'a massive chemistry experiment gone wrong'
Scientists warn that pollution may be dramatically increasing the rate of ocean acidification in inshore areas, threatening coral It has long been known that pollution is having a devastating impact
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Ocean Acidification Could Cost the World its Coral... and a Trillion Dollars
Ocean acidification and coral reef damage is likely going to cost the world economy over a trillion dollars by 2100, according to a new report by United Nations (UN) experts. The report was released
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A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean
The researchers performed a global assessment of how fish biomass has changed over the last 100 years, applying a previously developed methodology using ecological modeling. Our assessment built on more
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Lawrence Livermore finds ocean warming underestimated by past analyses
Using satellite observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore scientists have found that long-term ocean warming in the upper 700 meters of Southern Hemisphere oceans has likely