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Sea level rise over past century unmatched in 6,000 years
Posted in Science on 14th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
Research finds 20cm rise since start of 20th century, caused by global warming and the melting of polar ice, is unprecedented.
Ocean acidification causes US$1trn of damage a year
Posted in Science on 9th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
Some 400 million people depend on threatened coral reefs for their livelihoods, British scientists warn at UN meeting.
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
Posted in Featured, Science on 8th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
Different depths reveal ocean warming trends
Posted in Science on 5th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
The deeper half of the ocean did not get measurably warmer in the last decade, but surface layers have been warming faster than we thought since the 1970s.
Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains
Posted in Science on 4th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done.