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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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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleClimate 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...
View ArticleAs 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...
View ArticleWhy 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,...
View Article2024’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,...
View ArticleTwo 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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