The annual report from the Potsdam Institute indicates that we have already surpassed seven of the nine thresholds set for ecosystem survival. Human activity continues to push the planet Earth beyond ...
TL;DR: A new report on planetary boundaries indicates that we are nearing a dangerous threshold that could render Earth's environment unsustainable for human life. Ocean waters are rapidly decreasing ...
Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a livable place. Beyond ...
The acidification of the Earth's oceans is expected to triple by 2100, and could lead to major impacts on biodiversity across U.S. coastlines. With climbing atmospheric CO2, huge amounts of this gas ...
While the livelihoods of more than three billion people depend on oceanic resources, the ocean also provides a large fraction of the oxygen we breathe and absorbs greenhouse gases, mitigating their ...
A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world's oceans ...
Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails and cold-water corals. The ocean is the largest natural sink ...
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have for the first time shown that increased acidification of ...
How will the climate crisis affect one of the ocean’s fiercest predators? New research published Wednesday has examined what might happen to sharks’ highly specialized, flesh-cutting teeth. As carbon ...
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Making sustainable plastic from the carbon dioxide in the ocean
The ocean is Earth's largest carbon sink, absorbing about 25% of the CO₂ released by human activities. However, this uptake ...
Wei-Jun Cai, an expert in marine chemistry at the University of Delaware, is sounding new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean, where he and an ...
At Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery on the Oregon coast, baby oysters are hatched, raised, then sold to oyster farms throughout the Pacific Northwest. “Our pumps pump in about 200 gallons a minute of ...
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