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UNESCO reveals largest carbon stores found in Australian World Heritage Sites
Australia’s marine World Heritage Sites are among the world’s largest stores of carbon dioxide according to a new report from…
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Microplastic sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and coastal ocean revealed
IMAGE: Microplastics on a beach. view more Credit: NOAA Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed the sizes of microplastics…
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URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
IMAGE: Justine Sauvage measures dissolved oxygen in sediment cores collected in the North Atlantic. view more Credit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage…
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Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been…
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Glaciers accelerate in the Getz region of West Antarctica
IMAGE: Satellite observations has been used to show widespread increases in ice speed across the Getz sector for the first time,…
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Whale Sharks show remarkable capacity to recover from injuries
IMAGE: Whale Shark with dorsal fin damage view more Credit: Marine Conservation Society Seychelles A new study has for the first…
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Future ocean warming boosts tropical rainfall extremes
IMAGE: (Left) Predicted change of ocean surface temperature in 2050-2099 relative to 1950-1999 using an ensemble of climate models. (Right) Predicted…
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Study reveals energy sources supporting coral reef predators
IMAGE: Plankton-feeding fishes often dominate the fish assemblage on oceanic coral reefs. view more Credit: Dr Christina Skinner Since Charles Darwin’s…
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How sessile seahorses managed to speciate and disperse across the world’s oceans
The international research collaboration involving the research team led by evolutionary biologist Professor Axel Meyer at the University of Konstanz…
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USC biologists devise new way to assess carbon in the ocean
A new USC study puts ocean microbes in a new light with important implications for global warming. The study, published…
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