Human-induced climate change has already had a major impact on Earth’s biodiversity. The habitat of many species – including those in the oceans – Is disappearing, and invasive species are…
Kick-off meeting for DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs”. Corals and coral reefs store information about how the ocean-atmosphere system functioned in the past, but also about…
A new study led by the University of Tasmania – with the participation of the University of Bonn – discovered the oldest marine DNA in deep-sea sediments of the Scotia…
Exoplanet hunters should check for N2O. Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets…
Forecasters are predicting a “three-peat La Niña” this year. This will be the third winter in a row that the Pacific Ocean has been in a La Niña cycle, something…
Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects. Subtropical gyres are enormous rotating ocean currents that generate sustained circulations in…