Oceans
Great Barrier Reef Has Deteriorated to ‘Critical Point’ Amid Warming Seas...
By Harry Cockburn,
30 August 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has deteriorated to a “critical point” with its future outlook downgraded from “poor” to...
The World’s Oceans Are in Danger
By Brad Plumer
Sept. 25, 2019
Climate change is heating the oceans and altering their chemistry so dramatically that it is threatening seafood supplies, fueling cyclones...
Particles From Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Found in Deepest Parts...
Crustaceans in the Mariana Trench and other underwater canyons feed on food from the surface laced with carbon-14 from Cold War bomb tests
By Christopher Crockett
smithsonian.com
May...
Earth’s Oceans Have Absorbed Far More Heat Than Experts Believed, Study...
A new study says we’ve vastly underestimated the amount of heat trapped by Earth’s oceans due to global warming.
by Sarah Emerson
Nov 1 2018
On November...
Two Minutes to Doomsday
by Robert Hunziker
January 30, 2018
Not since 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviets exploded thermonuclear bombs, has the world been such a powder keg!
Only...
Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia.
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
September 20, 2017
In...