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Coral reefs shifting away from equator

Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate regions, according to new research in the journal Marine Ecology…

NASA satellites find biggest seaweed bloom in the world

Based on computer simulations, they confirmed that this belt of the brown macroalgae Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents. It can grow so…

More 'reactive' land surfaces cooled the Earth down

From time to time, there have been long periods of cooling in Earth's history. Temperatures had already fallen for more than ten million years before the last…

Remote but remarkable: Illuminating the smallest inhabitants of the largest ocean desert

The middle of the South Pacific is as far away from land as you can possibly get. Solar irradiance is dangerously high, reaching a UV-index that is labelled…

New measurements shed light on the impact of water temperatures on glacier calving

“One of the greatest uncertainties surrounding future sea level rise is how glacier dynamics change when glaciers come into contact with warming waters. Our…

Climate impact of clouds made from airplane contrails may triple by 2050

Contrail cirrus change global cloudiness, which creates an imbalance in the Earth’s radiation budget – called ‘radiative forcing’ – that results in warming of…

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