Fish populations are declining as oceans warm, putting a key source of food and income at risk for millions of people, according to new research.
Tag: Oceans and Seas
A Young Island on Earth May Reveal Clues to How Water Shaped Mars
NASA has closely studied the island, created four years ago by a volcanic eruption in the Pacific. Recently, one of its scientists was able to travel there to take on-the-ground measurements.
Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say
With the Arctic warming rapidly, ice loss in Greenland is accelerating and may soon be a major factor in rising sea levels, according to a new study.
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.
Frenchman, 71, Aims to Cross the Atlantic in a Giant Barrel
Jean-Jacques Savin set off from the Canary Islands this week for the Caribbean, propelled only by currents and winds, in an orange capsule he built himself.
Basics: The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces
Plate tectonics helped make our planet stable and habitable. But the slow shifting of continents is still a mysterious process.
Warming in Arctic Raises Fears of a ‘Rapid Unraveling’ of the Region
The Arctic has been warmer in the last five years than at any time since records began in 1900, a report from a United States scientific agency found.
Scientists Find Some Hope for Coral Reefs: The Strong May Survive
Global warming is ravaging coral, including at the Great Barrier Reef. But it may serve as “one enormous natural selection event,” a researcher said.
Matter: The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
In some ways, the planet’s worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
Visitors From the Ocean’s Twilight Zone
Researchers recently hauled up specimens from a layer of the world’s seas that contains an abundance of aquatic life.