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If melting Glaciers shut down the Atlantic Gulf Stream, Extreme Climate...

By René van Westen, Utrecht University; Henk A. Dijkstra, Utrecht University; and Michael Kliphuis, Utrecht University | – Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. That’s how...

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Fighting Climate Change by Halting Overfishing

By Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia | – Amid the escalating threats of a warming world, and with the latest annual United Nations global climate conference (COP28) behind us, there is one...

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A Single Antarctic heatwave or storm can Noticeably Raise the Sea Level

By Edward Hanna<, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute | - A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are...

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How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential...

By Frédéric Cyr, Memorial University of Newfoundland | – Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring bloom occurs. Visible from space,...

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Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of...

By Erin Saupe, University of Oxford and Cooper Malanoski, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – Many experts believe we may soon face a mass extinction event, with a high proportion of Earth’s...

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As Oceans Heat up, American Coastal Economies find themselves in Hot Water

By Charles Colgan, Middlebury Institute of International Studies | – Ocean-related tourism and recreation supports more than 320,000 jobs and US$13.5 billion in goods and services in Florida. But a...

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Why we need to Transform the Arctic Ocean into a North Pole Marine Reserve

(The Conversation) – Kirsten Freja Young, University of Exeter and Brendan Godley, University of Exeter At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland,...

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2024’s extreme Ocean Heat breaks Records again, leaving 2 Mysteries to solve

By Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology (The Conversation) – The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean,...

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Two Visions Collide on Ocean Use: Nationalist Raptors and Multilateral...

The ocean holds the answer. By Shafraz Rasheed | May 27, 2025 ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The rise of nationalist leaders epitomized by Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, cuts to UN...

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