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Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica

Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere specialist at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues were able to link the calving of icebergs from the…

Severe low temperatures devastate coral reefs in Florida Keys

Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low temperatures affect certain corals in much the same way that high temperatures do,…

Calcifying microalgae are witnesses of increasing ocean acidification

For the first time researchers have examined on a global scale how calcified algae in their natural habitat react to increasing acidification due to higher…

Study Assesses Nations' Vulnerabilities to Reduced Mollusk Harvests from Ocean Acidification

As CO2 levels driven by fossil fuel use have increased in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, so has the amount of CO2 absorbed by the world’s…

Ancient glacial melting process similar to existing concerns about Antarctica, Greenland

The findings, to be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide historical evidence that warming of water by 3-4 degrees…

WHOI Study Reports Microbes Consumed Oil in Gulf Slick at Unexpected Rates

Now, in the first published study to explain the role of microbes in breaking down the oil slick on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, Woods Hole Oceanographic…

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