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Why the Oceans Are Absorbing More Heat Than Predicted
The Earth’s oceans, vast and mysterious, cover more than 70% of our planet’s surface. They play a critical role in regulating ...
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An innumerable army. Microorganisms are becoming enemies of humanity amid global warming
About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by marine ecosystems. Byestimates According to marine biologists, the biomass of microorganisms is about 9 ...
Stop stirring up the seafloor
Yet when governments and corporate investors are pouring huge amounts of money and resources into moonshot carbon capture ...
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
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Record Heat and Sea Level Rise, Widespread Displacement Mark First Year Above 1.5°C: WMO
State of the Climate report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) concludes that last year was the hottest on record, with the highest ocean heat, record sea level rise, largest glacier loss, ...
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Melting ice, more rain drive Southern Ocean cooling
Stanford researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Most climate models now show that cutting emissions won’t be enough to curb global warming. The world needs to actively ...
How Oceans Can Capture Carbon
Sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.
Trump wants Greenland. But much of the island is vanishing
The Greenland ice sheet makes up 80 percent of the world’s largest island. And, it’s melting thanks to human-caused climate ...
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Creating Carbon-Negative Structures with Coral Technology
USC researchers have developed a coral reef-inspired method to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert it into durable ...
Ocean dumping or climate solution? Inside the race to lock away planet-warming carbon in our seas
There is major debate over the consequences for oceans and over the exact benefits for the climate. View on euronews ...