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Climate change weakens Walker circulation

Strong rains that produce flooding on one extreme, and droughts on the other, influence the lives of millions of people in tropical regions.

Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea…

Ocean atmosphere rife with microbes

Understanding the oceans' role as a source and sink for airborne microbes can provide insight into the maintenance of microbial diversity and how human, animal…

NASA finds newly formed tropical storm lan over open waters

Tropical Storm Lan developed on Oct. 15 and has been moving to the west-northwest over open ocean.

The melting ice makes the sea around Greenland less saline

For the first time, ocean data from Northeast Greenland reveals the long-term impact of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. The observed increase in…

WSU researchers document one of planet's largest volcanic eruptions

Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic eruptions, a…

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