200 million-year-old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea…
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The Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area for the year on October 7, 2021, and ranks as the 13th largest since 1979. Scientists from…
Among the ecological communities studied are corals. An international team of environmental scientists has published a series of significant recommendations to protect, conserve and study…
Large predatory fish are expected to lag behind temperature shifts due to food-web dynamics. Sophisticated model reveals how predator-prey relationships affect species’ ranges. Warming of…
Map of the Amundsen Sea Basin. Credit: European Geosciences Union A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming…
Circulation of the global ocean. Credit: NASA Finding could help refine climate modeling. University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep…
This animation shows the radar pulse from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite’s altimeter bouncing off the sea surface in order to measure the height of…
This is a view of the tank after 22 months in conditions expected under climate change. Credit: Rowan McLachlan 22-month study provides realistic conditions, scientists…
Repeated mapping surveys with MBARI’s autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) revealed a massive sinkhole developed over just nine years. Credit: Eve Lundsten © 2022 MBARI Using…
The 2018 Woolsey Fire in California burned nearly 100,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. This image was taken on November 9, 2018. Credit:…
An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age…
October 29, 2020 February 5, 2022 Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of the largest waves ever…
Coastal cities like Miami, shown, already experience high-tide flooding. Credit: B137 (CC-BY) NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge AWI experts…
A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers…
The research team finds Atlantic cod in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: UFA Show & Factual, Germany Single individuals of Atlantic cod and squid occur much…
An effort of 15 deep-sea international expeditions has allowed the analysis of abyssal sediments collected in all major oceanic regions, including the Arctic and Southern…
Coral bleaching in Okinawa, Japan. Credit: Beger Lab Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will still be catastrophic for coral reefs, new research…
A view of the Earth from space on September 21, 2005, with the full Antarctic region visible. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center AWI study provides…
Sediment samples from the deep, hot subseafloor biosphere were collected during the IODP 370 expedition onboard the Japanese scientific drilling ship. Credit: JAMSTEC Since the…