Posts Tagged ‘ocean’
Global warming puts heat on U.S. military ops
TEXAS A&M (US) — Changing global climate due to ongoing warming will present national and homeland security challenges requiring the U.S. military to adopt new ways of doing business worldwide. A new report, issued by the National Research Counci...
How Much Ocean Pollution Falls From The Sky? New Method To Take Measurements.
Photo by mrpbps We know that a significant portion of ocean pollution comes from particles in the air released by fossil fuel combustion, power plants and the like, and that rainfall is a primary way it moves from air to ocean. But just how much of t...
ESA’s sharp eyes on coastal waters
(European Space Agency) Our growing reliance on coastal waters for food, trade and tourism means that these delicate ecosystems need to be more closely monitored to guarantee their future sustainability.
Big chill from shift in ocean circulation
CARDIFF U (UK) — Researchers studying ocean sediment cores have found evidence that past changes in ocean circulation may have been more dramatic than previously thought. Scientists have long suspected that far more severe and longer-lasting cold int...
First-Ever Global Map to Delve Deep Into Earth Surface Helps Reveal Water Supply
Image credit: Geophysical Research Letters Questions such as how much fresh water we have left on Earth, where it is located, and how we can access it are all nearly impossible to answer. However, scientists working on understanding and revealing the...
Researchers find smoking gun of world’s biggest extinction
(University of Calgary) Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact on global oceans.
2011: Year of the flood
The year 2010 was one the worst years in world history for high-impact floods. But just three weeks into the new year, 2011 has already had an entire year's worth of mega-floods. I'll recap here six remarkable floods that have already occurred this yea...
Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Low December Record
photo: DorkyMum/Creative Commons The UK may have just had the coldest December in a century, but here's an example of how the rest of the planet as a whole is still warming, even more so in the northern latitudes: As Climate Progress reports, the
Florida shivers; Hot Arctic-Cold Continents pattern is back
Cold air sweeping southwards behind the fierce snowstorm that roared through the Upper Midwest over the weekend is bringing record low temperatures over much of the Southeast this morning. However, preliminary indications are that Central Florida's ora...
Bill Gates Is Investing In Clouds
The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "billionaire Bill Gates is funding experiments to explore using "artificial" ...
Massive Oil Spill Hits Louisiana Coast
Long Trapped Methane Bubbling Up From Arctic Seabed
ABC News and Reuters are reporting that "large amounts of ...
Rare Video: Massive Rogue Wave In California
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“Double Whammy” Of Powerful Arctic Ice-melt Next Summer
2009: Second Warmest Year On Record
Mediterranean Sea Created By Massive Flood
According to Live Science, "the Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic ...
Hurricane-killing wave pump
CNN takes a look at "8 weird ways to save the Earth". One of them is a "Hurricane-killing pump", for which Bill Gates is a ...
Jump in coal use pushes emissions to all-time high
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting ...
Ocean warming in UK waters is increasing scallop stocks
Satellites Can Spot Tsunamis
News Daily is reporting that "Satellites can spot the leading edge ...
Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog: Fourth warmest May on record
Dr. Jeff Masters, Wunderblog, explains how the month of May 2009 was the fourth warmest on record. "The globe recorded its fourth warmest May on record, according to the National ...
YouTube: The Environmental Film “Home”
As described on YouTube, "HOME is a feature film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and co-produced by EuropaCorp (Luc Besson's studio) and Elzévir Films and supported ...
Global Temperature Rises, What It Will Mean To You
According to Mark Lynas, the author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, and as reported in The Guardian...
Large Ice Shelf Breaks Loose, Amplifies Effects Of Global Warming
Red Orbit reports that "according to the UN Environmental Program, an enormous breakaway piece of Antarctica’s ice shelf could ...
Atlantic Ocean Temperature Warming Trend Caused By Dust
AccuWeather is reporting that "a reduction of airborne dust and volcanic emissions is the main cause of ...
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