Hotspots, choke points, pirates: it’s not always smooth sailing for the world’s ships
And the COVID-19 pandemic saw hundreds of ships were reportedly stranded outside congested ports across the globe.At any ...
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Smithsonian researchers study ocean stowaways to assess their impacts
The Marine Invasions Research Lab, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is the nation’s largest program dedicated to monitoring the ocean and coastal regions for invasions by ...
Long-term data analysis prompts rethink on regional differences in ocean carbon sequestration
A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the ...
Old NASA mission reveals an unlikely world harbors an ocean
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
Why global sea ice cover has dipped to record low — what this means
Sea ice refers to the free-floating ice in the polar regions. While it generally expands during the winter and melts in the ...
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The Biogeography of the Oceans
So far in my studies of biogeography, we've mainly looked at how life distributes and structures itself on land. Today we're changing that by taking a deep dive into the many similarities and ...
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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply Science, our weekly ...
Glaciers are receding all over the world, at a rate of three Olympic swimming pools per second
The Alps and Pyrénées are among the hardest-hit areas, having shed around 40% of their mass in 20 years, according to a study ...
Earth’s Oceans Were Green a Billion Years Ago. They Could Soon Be Green Again.
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.
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Climate models underestimate global phytoplankton decline, study warns
A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity ...
Scientists look to the Miocene for clues of what we might expect from global heating caused by fossil fuels
Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...
NOAA’s vast public weather data powers local forecasts. A private company alone can’t match it.
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...