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Getting a Rise Out of You Oceans warming faster than thought, says research		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:39 PM on 18 Jun 2008 The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last four decades than what was previously thought, according to a new study published in Nature. The new research helps to explain recent sea-level rise that climate models weren't accounting for; melting ice gets all the press, but since heat expands, hotter water also contributes to rising seas. The research gives ''significant ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, oceans (all these topics)

Reef, or Madness Ocean acidification to weaken coral reefs, make islands more vulnerable to storms		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 6:51 AM on 02 Jun 2008 Acidification of the ocean could make low-lying island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati more vulnerable to storms since it can significantly weaken coral reefs, according to a new report. When the oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, carbonic acid forms, which makes it more difficult for sea critters like coral and starfish to form shells and sk ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Climos Def New company wants to seed ocean with iron to sequester carbon		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:24 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Weeks after ocean-seeding company Planktos bit the iron dust, a startup called Climos is plowing ahead with a similar business plan: seed the ocean with iron dust to stimulate the growth of CO2-gobbling plankton, then sell offsets for the sequestered carbon. Climos has announced $3.5 million in venture capital and is backed by reputable investors: Tesla Chair (née Pay-Pal cofounder) Elon Mu ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Whaling and Gnashing of Teeth Norway says whale consumption is good for the planet		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Eating whale meat is better for the planet than eating beef, pork, or chicken, according to a comparative carbon-emissions calculation by Norwegian lobbying group the High North Alliance. Says the alliance's Rune Froevik, in what may be a bit of an exaggeration, "Basically it turns out that the best thing you can do for the planet is to eat whale meat compared to other types ...
Topics: Australia, climate, food, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, Japan, news, Norway, oceans, whaling (all these topics)

Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N.		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:07 AM on 25 Feb 2008 When last we checked in on the world's commercial fish stocks, they were in danger of collapsing within decades. And, sorry to say, they still are, according to a United Nations Environment Program report ominously titled "In Dead Water." Factor in climate change, overfishing, and pollution "and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of w ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Assail the Seven Seas Nearly all of world's oceans tainted by human activity, says study		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 15 Feb 2008 Human activity has tainted all but 3.7 percent of the world's oceans, and 41 percent of the world's waters have been heavily impacted, says a new study in Science. A graphic map illustrates in all-too-clear terms that the briny deep has taken a terrible toll from 17 human threats, including climate change, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, coastal development, and shipping pol ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Strike While the Iron Is ... Whoops, Too Late Plan to combat warming by seeding ocean with iron runs out of funds		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:26 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Planktos, the company that proposed fending off global warming by seeding the ocean with iron dust, has failed to get enough funding to go forward with planned tests. Under the Planktos business plan, iron fertilization would encourage phytoplankton blooms, which would suck up extra CO2, allowing the company to sell carbon offsets. But it was not to ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Everything But the Ocean Sink World's oceans sequestering less CO2 than expected		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 22 Oct 2007 The world's oceans appear to be sequestering far less carbon dioxide than one would hope, says a new study. CO2 soakage by the north Atlantic Ocean has lessened dramatically in the last decade. "The speed and size of the change show that we cannot take for granted the ocean sink for the carbon dioxide," says one researcher. What we can take for granted: a continuing slew o ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oceans (all these topics)

Someone Alert Ben and Jerry Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Someone Alert Ben and Jerry Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says Forget the rainforest: the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific oceans are vanishing twice as quickly, researchers say. The Indo-Pacific region, home to 75 percent of the world's coral reefs, has lost nearly 600 square miles of reef each year since the late 1960s. In addition, coral cover -- ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Irony Of Iron Ease U.S. EPA challenges California company's plankton-seeding plan		19 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Irony Of Iron Ease U.S. EPA challenges California company's plankton-seeding plan A California company's plan to fight climate change by seeding the ocean with iron dust is drawing fire from the U.S. EPA, which reportedly woke from a nap with the vague feeling that it ought to be doing something regulatory. The company, Planktos, will use the iron to spur the growth of phytoplankton, which ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Get Your Vacuum Cleaner Ready Southern Ocean losing ability to soak up carbon dioxide, researchers say		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
Get Your Vacuum Cleaner Ready Southern Ocean losing ability to soak up carbon dioxide, researchers say If you're counting on the seas to soak up excess emissions and get us out of this climate mess, you might need a new plan. Scientists say Antarctica's Southern Ocean, a whopper of a "carbon sink," is losing its ability to absorb more carbon dioxide. The findings, published in the journal Science, suggest ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news, oceans (all these topics)

A Fine Discovery Some coral may be resistant to acidification, reefs still doomed		30 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
A Fine Discovery Some coral may be resistant to acidification, reefs still doomed The world's oceans are on track to be more acidic by 2100 than they've been for 20 million years, thanks to our fiendish friend carbon dioxide. But research by Israeli scientists shows that the coral polyps living in underwater reefs may be able to survive, even as the reefs themselves are destroyed. Marine zoologist Maoz Fine p ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, oceans (all these topics)

See, We'll Be Fine Research shows carbon dioxide sinks deeper into oceans than estimated		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
See, We'll Be Fine Research shows carbon dioxide sinks deeper into oceans than estimated Researchers have long known that the world's oceans absorb some of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's a boon and a bane, helping to stem the tide of climate change while causing acidification that hurts Nemo and friends. But new research shows that carbon is going deeper than previously thought, making the situation both boonier an ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

Unusual Weather We're Having, Ain't It? Number-crunchers say 2006 on track to be the sixth-hottest on record		15 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Unusual Weather We're Having, Ain't It? Number-crunchers say 2006 on track to be the sixth-hottest on record As 2006 limps to a close, it's measuring in as the world's sixth-hottest year on record. It's the warmest Britain has seen since wenches were hoisting tankards of grog (er, since records began in 1659), and the third-warmest in the U.S.'s Lower 48 since 1880. Weird weather has gripped the globe ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

The Good Phyto Global warming affects ocean's tiny plants, which could affect global warming		07 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
The Good Phyto Global warming affects ocean's tiny plants, which could affect global warming Proving that big things do come in small packages, researchers say global warming could hobble the teeniest marine organisms, phytoplankton -- which could, in turn, lead to more warming. Whuh-huh? Well, these wee plants not only make a tasty sea snack, they provide a vital piece of climate-change resistance by absorbing carbon dioxide -- more ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

Come On, Baby, Do the Loco Oceans Rising ocean temperatures caused by anthropogenic warming, says study		12 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Come On, Baby, Do the Loco Oceans Rising ocean temperatures caused by anthropogenic warming, says study Well here's a shocker: turns out it's global warming causing the globe's oceans to warm, a phenomenon linked to more intense hurricanes. Such is the counter-counter-intuitive conclusion of new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Over the 20th century, average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atl ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger Researchers believe global warming is behind a recurring low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Pacific Northwest ocean. Triggered by north winds, a process called upwelling encourages the growth of phytoplankton blooms; when the water calms, the phytoplankton die for lack of nutrients, sink to the bottom, and rot, using up oxyg ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana, news, oceans, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Yeah, Right, and Greenland Is Melting Study confirms that rising ocean temps mean more intense hurricanes		20 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Yeah, Right, and Greenland Is Melting Study confirms that rising ocean temps mean more intense hurricanes A major new study in Science confirms the findings of previous studies: rising ocean temperatures are the primary factor behind stronger, more intense hurricanes in the last few decades. Since 1970, global sea-surface temperatures have risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit, while the yearly number of Category 4 or 5 hurricanes has doubled ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

Hurricane You Hear Me Now? Warming oceans linked to increase in powerful hurricanes and storms		16 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Hurricane You Hear Me Now? Warming oceans linked to increase in powerful hurricanes and storms Severe hurricanes and cyclones have become more common worldwide as ocean temperatures have increased, according to a study published today in the journal Science. Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry and colleagues studied satellite data from the past 35 years as well as computer models before reaching their conclusion: Category 4 and 5 ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

The Tiger of the Eye Study links more destructive hurricanes to global warming		01 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
The Tiger of the Eye Study links more destructive hurricanes to global warming Controversy about the connection between severe storms and climate change seems to follow inevitably on the heels of hurricane season. This year is no different: A report this week in the journal Nature will argue that global warming is a major cause of the rise in cumulative hurricane power since 1970. MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel found that in the pas ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

Storm Affront Global warming to cause X-treme hurricanes; Sprite sponsorship in works		20 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Storm Affront Global warming to cause X-treme hurricanes; Sprite sponsorship in works Coming soon to our warming globe: extreme hurricanes. Research just published in the journal Science suggests that as higher temperatures draw more ocean water into the atmosphere, hurricanes and typhoons will intensify. Over the course of the 20th century, water vapor over the oceans increased by 5 percent overall and 10 percent in areas where hurr ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers		29 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers Hey, did you know that the globe is warming? Really and for true! A new study by researchers at NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Columbia University, published in the journal Science this week, concludes that global warming is real. Really. Lead scientist James Hansen calls the new data a "smoking g ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, oceans (all these topics)

A Current Affair New data on warming oceans are strong evidence for climate change		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
A Current Affair New data on warming oceans are strong evidence for climate change Measurements of ocean temperatures presented yesterday constitute (still more) compelling evidence that global warming is upon us, say scientists. The data, introduced at the annual gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, show that temperature readings in the oceans for the past 40 years line up almost exactly with the pr ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics)

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