ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2010) — Fertilizer chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment — specifically to creatures that live in water — than originally foreseen, according to new research from North Carolina State University toxicologists. In a study published in the Aug. 27 edition of PLoS ONE, the NC State researchers show […]
August 25, 2010 A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and […]
A bill in the Legislature would delay new regulations that require the DWP to overhaul three coastal power plants to reduce the amount of seawater used for cooling. By Patrick McGreevy and David Zahniser, Los Angeles TimesAugust 25, 2010 The city of Los Angeles has launched an aggressive lobbying campaign to roll back tough new […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 20 August 2010 A study has measured the amount of plastic debris found in a region of the Atlantic Ocean over a 22-year period. US researchers, writing in Science, suggest the volume of plastic appeared to have peaked in recent years. One reason could be tighter […]
Loss rate for mangrove forests is higher than the loss of inland tropical forests and coral reefs By Ben Norman, Lifesciencenews@wiley.com 18-Aug-2010 New satellite imagery has given scientists the most comprehensive and exact data on the distribution and decline of mangrove forests from across the world. The research, carried out by scientists from the U.S […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2010) — Climate change is causing higher air and water temperatures along the east coast of the United States. These changes have shrunk the geographic region where blue mussels are able to survive, according to findings by University of South Carolina researchers published in the Journal of Biogeography. Mytilus edulis, or […]
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, August 16, 2010 (ENS) – The rapidly rising temperature of south Asia’s Andaman Sea has triggered coral bleaching and die-off that scientists working in Indonesia are calling one of the most rapid and severe coral mortality events ever recorded. The coral die-off was indentified though monitoring by marine ecologists from the Wildlife […]
BBC15 August 2010 Warmer seas could be responsible for a change in the type of dolphins spotted off the coast of the North East of England, a survey has suggested. The Northeast Cetacean Project found an increase in sightings of common, bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins – species associated with warmer waters. There have also been […]
New strain can kill 80 percent of an oyster bed in a week, experts say. By Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic NewsPublished August 6, 2010 Don’t worry — oyster herpes isn’t a new side effect of eating “the food of love.” The incurable, deadly virus is, however, alarming fishing communities in Europe, where oyster herpes […]
XBT corrected estimates of annual ocean heat content anomaly (1022 J) for the 0–700 m layer. Differences among the time series arise from: input data; quality control procedure; gridding and infilling methodology (what assumptions are made in areas of missing data); bias correction methodology; and choice of reference climatology. Anomalies are computed relative to the […]
