Oceans. Medical search. Frequent questions

For instance, we have yet to map over 85 percent of the ocean floor to the same resolution we've mapped the surface of Venus, we've only discovered about a third of the marine life lurking in the world's oceans and we can't account for most of the trillions of tons of plastic that's ended up in the our oceans. (yahoo.com)

Over its full depth, the global ocean gained 35 x 10 22 joules of additional heat from 1960 to 2019. (www.csiro.au)
Using satellite data, the researchers examined the properties of clouds in the Southern Ocean during summers between 2014 and 2019. (spacedaily.com)
Importation of a novel Indian Ocean lineage carrying E1-K211E and E2-V264A of Chikungunya Virus in Zhejiang Province, China, in 2019. (bvsalud.org)

While more than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by its oceans, nearly 80% of that remains unexplored. (harvard.edu)
The world's oceans are a major component of the Earth's climate system and have a profound effect on the climate by redistributing heat and influencing wind patterns. (www.csiro.au)
The total weight of water in the ocean is about 280 times greater than the weight of the Earth's atmosphere, so the capacity for the ocean to store heat is vast. (www.csiro.au)
Oceans have therefore slowed the rate of warming near the Earth's land and ocean surface. (www.csiro.au)
Oceans cover 71 per cent of Earth's surface and hold 99 per cent of its biosphere. (davidsuzuki.org)
The oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and approximately 3 billion people live within 200 km off the coast. (tudelft.nl)
Covering more than 70% of the Earth's surface, oceans absorb huge amounts of solar energy. (exploratorium.edu)
Young Earth's molten lava ocean was layered like a pudding cake, according to a study published today (Nov. 6) in the journal Nature. (livescience.com)
But what piques UC Santa Barbara biogeochemist Morgan Raven's interest is the changing chemistry of the oceans - the Earth's largest carbon sink - and how it could move carbon from the atmosphere to long-term reservoirs like rocks. (countercurrents.org)
We talk about the seven seas, but really, one vast ocean covers 70% of the Earth's surface. (earth911.com)

Fish face a new threat - ocean acidification caused by global warming. (inhabitat.com)
Ocean warming, ocean acidification, ocean deoxygenation, overfishing and pollution are causing long-term harm to marine life, and the people who depend upon it. (iucn.org)
Meet the woman tracking ocean acidification in the Pacific - a rising danger that could destroy marine life and livelihoods. (abc.net.au)
Here's everything you need to know about the process and impacts of ocean acidification . (nrdc.org)
What is ocean acidification? (nrdc.org)
Ocean acidification is the process in which seawater becomes more acidic because of the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) it is absorbing from the atmosphere. (nrdc.org)
There is no meaningful scientific debate over whether acidification is occurring or what causes it," explains NRDC oceans expert Lisa Suatoni . (nrdc.org)
In addition to the burning of fossil fuels, another main culprit behind the sharp rise in ocean acidification is deforestation (both are major contributors to climate change ). (nrdc.org)
And while correlation doesn't always equal causation, Suatoni explains , "the consistency between what scientists theorize and what we've observed-as well as the lack of good alternative explanations-gives us high confidence that carbon dioxide pollution is causing ocean acidification. (nrdc.org)
Why is ocean acidification a problem? (nrdc.org)
What is especially alarming about ocean acidification today is the speed of change and its direct impacts on ocean ecosystems. (nrdc.org)
Rapid and large-scale increase in acidification has been found in the Arctic Ocean. (udel.edu)
Arctic Ocean acidification is increasing at least twice as fast as that observed in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. (udel.edu)
This map shows where ocean acidification is spreading in the Arctic Ocean, both in area and in depth. (udel.edu)
Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research reported in Nature Climate Change by a team of international collaborators, including University of Delaware professor Wei-Jun Cai . (udel.edu)
The Arctic Ocean is the first ocean where we see such a rapid and large-scale increase in acidification, at least twice as fast as that observed in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans," said Cai, the U.S. lead principal investigator on the project and Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at UD. (udel.edu)
The rapid spread of ocean acidification in the western Arctic has implications for marine life, particularly clams, mussels and tiny sea snails that may have difficulty building or maintaining their shells in increasingly acidified waters," said Richard Feely, NOAA senior scientist and a co-author of the research. (udel.edu)
Among the Arctic species potentially at risk from ocean acidification are subsistence fisheries of shrimp and varieties of salmon and crab. (udel.edu)
This work will help increase our understanding of climate change, carbon cycling, and ocean acidification in the Arctic, particularly as it affects marine and fishery science and technology," said Chen. (udel.edu)
While much of the scientific attention on ocean acidification has looked at the impact of coral reefs, the potential danger to other marine ecosystems is equally severe, Doney said. (sciencedaily.com)
Ocean acidification harms plants and animals that form shells from calcium carbonate," he said. (sciencedaily.com)
Ocean acidification is rapidly becoming a real problem. (sciencedaily.com)

We aim to promote discussions on the future plans for Arctic Ocean modelling and measurement strategies, and encourages submissions on the results from IPCC CMIP and the recent observational programs, such as the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC). (copernicus.org)
As temperatures and sea levels rise, what do we know about how climate change is impacting our oceans? (harvard.edu)
How are researchers, climate change experts, and environmental advocates finding ways to combat the effects of the changes to our oceans? (harvard.edu)
Carbon pollution isn't just warming the climate-it's also making our oceans more acidic. (nrdc.org)
Over the last decade, the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the "acidified" water in the upper water column. (udel.edu)
Working with data sets allows them to employ newly acquired interdisciplinary knowledge to make management decisions for marine protected areas and evaluate the effectiveness of geoengineering strategies that are meant to mitigate climate change through the manipulation of ocean processes. (carleton.edu)
Ocean Spray's decision to relocate to the Lehigh Valley is a result of Governor Corbett's commitment to creating a business climate in Pennsylvania that attracts economic growth and new jobs," Secretary Walker said. (prnewswire.com)
Oceans are the heart of our planet's weather and climate systems. (exploratorium.edu)
Scientists are now observing changes in ocean currents probably related to the changing climate. (exploratorium.edu)
As the oceans change due to climate alterations, rain and snowfall patterns will shift in response. (exploratorium.edu)
Overall, the world's oceans have kept the planet from experiencing the full effects of a changing climate due to their ability to absorb heat and carbon dioxide. (exploratorium.edu)
Climate change is rapidly transforming the world's oceans by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater, and altering atmospheric and oceanic circulation, reported a panel of scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
Climate change is rapidly transforming the world's oceans by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater, and altering atmospheric and oceanic circulation, reported a panel of scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston. (sciencedaily.com)
The vastness of our oceans may have engendered a sense of complacency about potential impacts from global climate change," said Jane Lubchenco, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Chair of Marine Biology at Oregon State University, who moderated the panel. (sciencedaily.com)
Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer from Oregon State University, is studying relationships between climate and the global activity of ocean plants called phytoplankton. (sciencedaily.com)
Satellites are one of the most important tools we have for understanding the link between climate and ocean biology because they provide measurements of the whole planet on a daily basis, which could never be accomplished by ship. (sciencedaily.com)
These strange ecosystems are expanding, thanks to climate change - a development that is of concern for fisheries and anyone who relies on oxygen-rich oceans. (countercurrents.org)
Ocean heating is a very important indicator of climate change, and we have robust evidence that it is warming more rapidly than we thought. (sciencedaily.com)
Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 percent of the excess solar energy trapped by greenhouse gases accumulates in the world's oceans. (sciencedaily.com)
And, unlike surface temperatures, ocean temperatures are not affected by year-to-year variations caused by climate events like El Nino or volcanic eruptions. (sciencedaily.com)
The new analysis, published Jan. 11 in Science , shows that trends in ocean heat content match those predicted by leading climate change models, and that overall ocean warming is accelerating. (sciencedaily.com)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, published in 2013, showed that leading climate change models seemed to predict a much faster increase in ocean heat content over the last 30 years than was seen in observations," Hausfather said. (sciencedaily.com)
The ocean also plays a huge role in climate stabilization, storing 50 times as much carbon as the atmosphere does. (earth911.com)
Warming ocean temperatures caused by global climate change can release that captured carbon , increasing the pace of climate change and leading to more severe storms. (earth911.com)
The United Nations' conservation goal for 2021 is to safeguard at least 30% of our planet in its natural state by 2030 "for a healthy ocean and climate. (earth911.com)
Tammi Richardson at the University of South Carolina, who wasn't involved in the study, said the findings "confirm suspicions" about how oceans are changing in response to climate change. (newscientist.com)
Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans? (newscientist.com)
To date, research on the effects of climate change has underestimated the contribution of seawater expansion to sea level rise due to warming of the oceans. (eurekalert.org)
From the perspective of the research team, it is thus worth keeping an eye on the expansion-related sea-level rise in the world's oceans in light of climate change. (eurekalert.org)
And under Oceans Futures we incubate, develop, and launch new innovative programs at the intersection of climate change, ocean health, and peace and security. (worldwildlife.org)
WWF announced the launch of our Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative that uses global climate and fisheries models to highlight 20 regions of the world that will likely see greater conflict, food insecurity, or geo-political tensions over ocean resources by 2030. (worldwildlife.org)
Healthy oceans and the marine species living in them provide natural at-scale solutions to climate adaptation and resilience-and they absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide. (worldwildlife.org)
The ocean feeds billions of people, delivers hundreds of millions of jobs, and provides safety and security to millions of individuals and communities vulnerable to the threat of climate change and natural disasters. (worldwildlife.org)
The Southern Ocean also plays a key role in the planet's climate. (spacedaily.com)
The evolution of industrial-era warming across the continents and oceans provides a context for future climate change and is important for determining climate sensitivity and the processes that control regional warming. (lu.se)
One consequence of climate change is higher water temperatures and reduced oxygen levels in the world's oceans. (lu.se)
There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of making financial flows consistent with improving ocean ecosystems, along with the recognition of the role oceans and seas play in climate change mitigation and adaptation. (lu.se)

OS1.6 Changes in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice and subarctic seas systems: Observations, Models and Perspectives Day 1. (copernicus.org)
The Hudson Bay, the Caribbean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the English Channel are all shallow seas that feed into the Atlantic Ocean. (yahoo.com)
The seas and oceans of the world are teeming with life. (enchantedlearning.com)
The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong (meaning "snow dragon") in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises. (udel.edu)
What we need is a new ocean ethic to forestall us from doing to the seas what we've already done to large tracts of land. (csmonitor.com)

A warming ocean affects the global ocean and atmospheric circulation, global and regional sea levels, uptake of anthropogenic CO 2 , and causes losses in oxygen and impacts on marine ecosystems. (www.csiro.au)
Warming oceans, together with an increase in the frequency, intensity and duration of marine heatwaves, pose a significant threat to the long-term health and resilience of coral reef ecosystems. (www.csiro.au)
Rising greenhouse gas emissions are warming the world's oceans and providing yet a new threat to coral reefs, which already are among the most threatened of all marine ecosystems. (sciencedaily.com)
Ocean ecosystems are facing new stresses and new combinations of stress," Hofmann said. (sciencedaily.com)
As on land, the ocean contains myriad ecosystems, from shallow ocean pastures to coral reefs to deep ocean trenches and the seabed. (earth911.com)
And oceans are foundational to spectacular ecosystems and biodiversity, including treasured marine wildlife such as whales, sharks, polar bears, and turtles. (worldwildlife.org)
Where ocean ecosystems are resilient and productive, so are coastal communities. (worldwildlife.org)

This phenomenon, which is impacting every ocean on Earth (as well as coastal estuaries and other waterways), is a direct consequence of the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting carbon pollution. (nrdc.org)
When carbon dioxide dissolves into the ocean, it triggers a chemical reaction that increases acidity over time. (nrdc.org)
Pacific Ocean water is already high in carbon dioxide and has higher acidity. (udel.edu)
As the ocean mass moves north, it absorbs additional carbon dioxide from decomposing organic matter in the water and sediments, increasing acidity. (udel.edu)
Caldeira, K. & Duffy, P. B. The role of the Southern Ocean in uptake and storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. (nature.com)
The ocean has moderated the effects of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by absorbing large amounts of the gas. (exploratorium.edu)
These same greenhouse gas emissions also are creating dramatic buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic, said panelist Scott Doney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (sciencedaily.com)
What happens to our carbon cycle as we get these large areas of the ocean that are oxygen-free? (countercurrents.org)
In oxygen-rich oceans, carbon is moved around largely by food web processes that begin with carbon dioxide-fixing phytoplankton that photosynthesize at the water's surface. (countercurrents.org)
And just like the pickles we know and love, the preservation process makes the organic particle resistant to bacteria, she said, which could explain why more organic carbon is found in the sediments below anoxic ocean zones. (countercurrents.org)
Sulfurization of organic carbon particles in anoxic ocean zones, while newly confirmed in modern-day oceans, is actually an ancient process, Raven explained. (countercurrents.org)
But even subtle shifts in ocean colour could herald dramatic impacts for the marine food chain and the ocean's ability to store carbon - although, again, it isn't yet clear how this will manifest. (newscientist.com)
The productivity of plankton helps the Southern Ocean pull carbon dioxide out of the air and "sequester" it in the oceanic food chain. (spacedaily.com)

Students study the oceans from these multiple perspectives using scientific data and engaging activities designed to support higher-level thinking. (carleton.edu)

A blue ocean is vast, deep, and powerful in terms of profitable growth. (blueoceanstrategy.com)
Ocean Energy has vast potential for the delivery of power, drinking water, and other products to coastal markets. (tudelft.nl)
Collection of these particles is itself an accomplishment for researchers combing the vast oceans for relatively small, diffuse particles. (countercurrents.org)

We encourage submissions examining interactions between the ocean, atmosphere and sea ice, on emerging mechanisms and feedbacks in the Arctic and on how the Arctic influences the global ocean. (copernicus.org)
This session is cosponsored by the CLIVAR /CliC Northern Ocean Regional Panel (NORP) that aims to facilitate progress and identify scientific opportunities in (sub)Arctic ocean-sea-ice-atmosphere research. (copernicus.org)
For example, if all the extra energy stored in the oceans was released to the atmosphere, the resulting temperature change in the atmosphere would be approximately 1000 times larger than the equivalent temperature change in the ocean. (www.csiro.au)
Throughout the module, students are challenged to think about the inter connectedness of Earth systems and how altering the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere impacts oceans (hydrosphere). (carleton.edu)
Scientists are working hard to understand this powerful interplay between heat in the atmosphere and in the oceans. (exploratorium.edu)
The fourth takes a completely different approach, using the fact that a warming ocean releases oxygen to the atmosphere to calculate ocean warming from changes in atmospheric oxygen concentrations, while accounting for other factors, like burning fossil fuels, that also change atmospheric oxygen levels. (sciencedaily.com)
It's that density of droplets that Mace and his colleagues, including scientists from CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere in Australia and the University of Tasmania, sought to study in Southern Ocean clouds. (spacedaily.com)
What controls the atmospheric CO 2 and CH 4 variations and the partitioning of emissions between the atmosphere, the ocean and sinks in the biosphere? (lu.se)

For instance, the Atlantic Ocean is slightly saltier than the Pacific, due to a dizzying number of factors, from the way the water cycle works to the effects of hydrothermal vents. (yahoo.com)

Just like an island's borders are drawn by water, continents mostly use oceans to describe their boundaries. (yahoo.com)
Since the world's oceans are similarly locked in between the continents, their levels also rise when they heat up due to rising temperatures. (eurekalert.org)

Scientists say warming ocean temperatures are having an alarming impact on Antarctic sea ice levels, with currently 1.5 million square kilometres less sea ice than is typical at this time. (abc.net.au)
Researchers study sea surface temperatures (SST) to track annual shifts in ocean currents and temperatures. (exploratorium.edu)
Using NASA satellites, we can track changes in phytoplankton on a global basis and what we find is that warming ocean temperatures are linked to decreasing photosynthesis. (sciencedaily.com)
Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, concludes an analysis of four recent ocean heating observations. (sciencedaily.com)
Little measurement data is available, they say, to show how much the oceans are warming up and expanding at depths of thousands of meters in conjunction with rising global air temperatures. (eurekalert.org)
By analysing foraminifera brought up by drilling into the ocean floor, researchers gain important information about how water temperatures and salt and oxygen levels have changed throughout history. (lu.se)

BB Cael at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, and his colleagues used data gathered by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite to monitor changes in the radiance coming from the water's surface, a key metric for analysing shifts in ocean colour, from 2002 to 2022. (newscientist.com)

Charting a course to healthy oceans requires a clear plan. (davidsuzuki.org)
But healthy oceans provide an enabling environment for peaceful and well-functioning societies. (worldwildlife.org)

Scientists predict the change will have serious ramifications for ocean ecologies, food security, and economies, big and small, that depend on marine industries. (nrdc.org)
With the use of 21st-century technologies like robotics, satellite monitoring, and more, scientists are revealing the unseen habitats of the oceans' most mysterious animals and mapping remote, inhospitable areas in unprecedented detail. (amnh.org)
To track changes, ocean scientists look at the difference between the actual temperature and the average temperature for that day of the year, based on data from the last several decades. (exploratorium.edu)
Every two years, the Ocean Sciences Meeting unifies the oceans community to share findings, connect scientists from around the world, and advance the impact of science. (agu.org)

The session supports the actions of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) towards addressing challenges for sustainable development in the Arctic and its diverse regions. (copernicus.org)
By 2030, a healthy ocean supports nature and people, governed by strengthened national and international legal frameworks and sustainable investments that retain and restore ocean and coastal biodiversity and associated services for future generations. (iucn.org)

Although we often hear rainforests called the planet's lungs, oceans produce half of the world's oxygen. (earth911.com)

Oceans serve as the world's largest food source, with more than 3 billion people depending on the ocean as their primary source of protein. (earth911.com)

With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. (countercurrents.org)

Without reform, the situation is set to worsen with profound impacts for humanity, life in the oceans and global weather systems. (iucn.org)
This two- to three-week, six-unit module introduces the importance of oceans, basic ocean processes, and impacts of human activity on ocean health. (carleton.edu)
This module introduces students to the complexity of ocean processes through lessons on ocean chemistry, ecology, marine protection, human impacts and geoengineering. (carleton.edu)
The world's oceans are undergoing profound physical, chemical and biological changes whose impacts are just beginning to be felt. (sciencedaily.com)
We must manage our ocean to balance any potential economic impacts on fishermen with the goal of creating a sustainable fishery. (earthjustice.org)
However, like "tsunami," "seismic sea wave" is not a completely accurate term, as forces other than earthquakes - including underwater landslides, volcanic eruptions, underwater explosions, land or ice slumping into the ocean, meteorite impacts, or even sudden changes in weather - can generate such waves by displacing water. (universetoday.com)

Because research has shown that the rise in fossil fuels and atmospheric CO2 correlates with the decline of ocean pH. (nrdc.org)
In 1999, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially recognized the Southern Ocean as a separate body of water, but it took until 2021 for the IHO and the National Geographic Society to recognize it as separate from the Pacific Ocean. (yahoo.com)
Mythic Ocean is an atmospheric and charming adventure where you'll befriend a pantheon of gods under the sea, help them find themselves, and make choices that shape the creation of a new world. (steampowered.com)
Subsequent general circulation model simulations show that the Southern Ocean is the most important high latitude region in controlling pre-industrial atmospheric CO 2 because it serves as a lid to a larger volume of the deep ocean 5 , 6 . (nature.com)
We demonstrate that atmospheric CO 2 and global biological export production are controlled by different regions of the Southern Ocean. (nature.com)
Siegenthaler, U. & Wenk, T. H. Rapid atmospheric CO2 variations and ocean circulation. (nature.com)
Joos, F., Sarmiento, J. L. & Siegenthaler, U. Estimates of the effect of Southern Ocean iron fertilization on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. (nature.com)
Sarmiento, J. L. & Orr, J. C. Three-dimensional ocean model simulations of the impact of Southern Ocean nutrient depletion on atmospheric CO2 and ocean chemistry. (nature.com)
The teeming life in the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, contributes to brightening the clouds that form there, according to a study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. (spacedaily.com)
In the relatively still summer air of the Southern Ocean, those gases can lead to atmospheric chemical reactions that form aerosols. (spacedaily.com)

Peruse a variety of boutiques on Ocean Cay in search of the perfect memento of your cruise vacation. (msccruisesusa.com)

As the global surface temperature rises, the Arctic Ocean is speculated to become seasonally ice-free by the mid 21st century, which prompts us to revisit our perceptions of the Arctic system as a whole. (copernicus.org)
While the absolute temperature changes over the whole ocean depth are small compared to those at the land and ocean surface, the ocean has taken up approximately 90 per cent of the extra energy from enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations. (www.csiro.au)
Long-term temperature trends in the deep ocean, below 2000 metres, show a slow but steady warming. (www.csiro.au)
Large‑scale bleaching is a stress response of corals that occurs primarily in response to elevated ocean temperature. (www.csiro.au)
In the past, natural, long-term oscillations in the oceans' capacity to store and transport heat have led to global temperature shifts, including past Ice Ages. (exploratorium.edu)
Assuming a "business-as-usual" scenario in which no effort has been made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) models predict that the temperature of the top 2,000 meters of the world's oceans will rise 0.78 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. (sciencedaily.com)
The four studies, published between 2014 and 2017, provide better estimates of past trends in ocean heat content by correcting for discrepancies between different types of ocean temperature measurements and by better accounting for gaps in measurements over time or location. (sciencedaily.com)
A fleet of nearly 4,000 floating robots drift throughout the world's oceans, every few days diving to a depth of 2000 meters and measuring the ocean's temperature, pH, salinity and other bits of information as they rise back up. (sciencedaily.com)
Prior to Argo, ocean temperature data was sparse at best, relying on devices called expendable bathythermographs that sank to the depths only once, transmitting data on ocean temperature until settling into watery graves. (sciencedaily.com)
In principle, water in the oceans acts like a mercury thermometer: when the temperature goes up, the liquid expands and climbs up the little tube. (eurekalert.org)

Phytoplankton are of tremendous human importance because their photosynthesis yields oxygen for us to breathe and they are the base of the ocean food webs that support our global fisheries," Behrenfeld said. (sciencedaily.com)
Phytoplankton grow in the surface ocean, but due to gravity, they sink," she said. (countercurrents.org)
It may be that smaller-celled phytoplankton are becoming more dominant, occupying the oceans at a higher concentration. (newscientist.com)

Warmer ocean waters spawn stronger hurricanes and other tropical storms, and more evaporation leads to more intense rainfall. (exploratorium.edu)
The water is warmer, circulation patterns are changing in unpredictable ways, and oceans are becoming acidic. (sciencedaily.com)
Warmer oceans also contribute to stronger storms, hurricanes and extreme precipitation. (sciencedaily.com)

Since 2004, NIEHS and the National Science Foundation jointly fund research on marine-related health issues through the Centers for Oceans and Human Health and through individual research projects focusing on oceans and the Great Lakes in relation to human health. (nih.gov)

Put another way, humans have transformed the chemistry of the ocean: The average acidity of seawater has increased by 30 percent due to our activities. (nrdc.org)

The International Energy Agency envisions Ocean Energy will have an installed capacity of 750 GW by 2050. (tudelft.nl)
There will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world's oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum warned Tuesday. (cnn.com)

The Atlantic gateway to the Arctic Ocean is influenced by vigorous inflows of Atlantic Water. (copernicus.org)
The oceans are actually rising as the planet warms up, in part because the volume of water is expanding due to the extra heat, and in part due to the ongoing melting of polar ice. (forbes.com)
But experts estimate that over the course of the 21st century, the pH of ocean water could dip down to 7.8 . (nrdc.org)
Water covers most of our planet and is divided into five named oceans. (yahoo.com)
As surrounded by water as we are, it's strange that we know so little about the world's oceans. (yahoo.com)
Humans have gotten into the habit of separating the one big, continuous, mysterious body of water that covers the globe into sectors that we call oceans. (yahoo.com)
There are no real barriers between the world's ocean like there are with landmasses, mostly because bodies of water are often what we use to create geographical boundaries. (yahoo.com)
So, although the Atlantic Ocean is technically part of the same global ocean as the Pacific, people say the Drake Passage - the narrow keyhole of water between Antarctica and Cape Horn at the tip of South America - is the boundary between the two oceans. (yahoo.com)
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the five oceans, its waters covering more than 30 percent of the globe and holding more than half of the world's above-ground water. (yahoo.com)
UD post-doctoral researcher Baoshan Chen (pictured left) takes water samples of a melting pond on an ice station on the northern Arctic Ocean Basin with a Chinese collaborator. (udel.edu)
In recent years, melting sea ice has allowed more of the Pacific water to flow through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean. (udel.edu)
There, the water cools, sinks, and flows via deep ocean currents back toward the equator. (exploratorium.edu)
In addition to storing and transporting heat, oceans are fundamental to how water moves around the globe. (exploratorium.edu)
Created in 1976, the law regulates commercial and recreational salt water fisheries in ocean waters controlled by the United States (3-200 miles offshore). (earthjustice.org)
What happens to the level of the ocean water over the course of a day? (usra.edu)
The most likely cause for the colour changes is a strengthening of ocean stratification, which describes the natural division between less dense warm waters at the surface and cooler, denser water below. (newscientist.com)
To date, we have underestimated how much the heat-related expansion of the water mass in the oceans contributes to a global rise in sea level," says Dr. Jürgen Kusche, Professor of Astronomical, Physical and Mathematical Geodesy at the University of Bonn. (eurekalert.org)
Together with researchers at the Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, the geodesists used gravity field data from the GRACE satellites and sea-level measurements from the altimeters on Jason-1 and Jason-2 to calculate how much sea levels had risen, both due to warming-related expansion of the water and due to the increase of ocean mass from 2002 to 2014. (eurekalert.org)
Oceans fuel the water cycles that produce rain and freshwater and create oxygen. (worldwildlife.org)
We have a particularly wet section for you this week with oceans, ice sheets, and even a little lake water thrown in. (csmonitor.com)
And on this blue planet of ours - three-quarters covered by water - conquering the ocean depths has become the newest "final frontier. (csmonitor.com)
Beneath Europa's thin crust of ice lies a tantalizing global ocean of liquid water somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 kilometers deep-which adds up to more liquid water than is on the entire surface of the Earth. (universetoday.com)
Clouds with relatively low droplet densities were highly likely to have migrated from more northern latitudes, where salt in the air from spraying ocean water is one of the primary cloud condensation nuclei. (spacedaily.com)
Spending time in natural bodies of water-like oceans, lakes, and rivers-is a great way to enjoy the outdoors with family and friends. (cdc.gov)
Taking a few simple steps when you visit oceans, lakes, rivers, and other natural bodies of water can help protect everyone from these germs. (cdc.gov)
If your body's ability to fight germs is already affected by other health problems or medicines, check with your healthcare provider before swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers, and other natural bodies of water. (cdc.gov)

This is now changing the chemistry of the ocean, increasing its acidity. (exploratorium.edu)

The world's oceans are taking up around 90 per cent of the extra energy stored by the planet as a result of enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations. (www.csiro.au)
The early onset of sustained, significant warming in palaeoclimate records and model simulations suggests that greenhouse forcing of industrial-era warming commenced as early as the mid-nineteenth century and included an enhanced equatorial ocean response mechanism. (lu.se)

The warmest year on record was 2016, associated with one of the strongest negative Indian Ocean Dipole events on record. (www.csiro.au)
While 2018 will be the fourth warmest year on record on the surface, it will most certainly be the warmest year on record in the oceans, as was 2017 and 2016 before that," Hausfather said. (sciencedaily.com)

As a result, the ocean is warming both near the surface and at depth, with the rate of warming varying between regions and depths. (www.csiro.au)
Arctic ocean ice melt in the summer, once found only in shallow waters of depths less than 650 feet or 200 meters, now spreads further into the Arctic Ocean. (udel.edu)
After showing us the size of space , here's a fascinating intereactive visualisation of the ocean depths. (adactio.com)

As the interest in ocean energies is continuously growing, the Delft Energy Initiative (DEI) founded the TU Delft Ocean Energy Platform, with the aim to bring together TU Delft researchers to share their knowledge and learn from others working on this topic. (tudelft.nl)
Researchers looking at more than 100 studies to better understand the connection between marine conservation and human health found that most people in the world depend on ocean health for food, health, and economic benefits. (worldwildlife.org)
In the study, the researchers analysed foraminifera brought up by drilling into the ocean floor. (lu.se)

What could the Arctic Ocean look like in the future? (copernicus.org)
Wilken-Jon von Appen will be talking about eddies in the Arctic Ocean. (copernicus.org)
One Canadian deep-sea explorer, while diving in the Arctic Ocean far from any human settlement, found a soda can 40 feet below the ice, nestled in a kelp plant. (csmonitor.com)

Tides have important effects on marine life and ocean currents. (usra.edu)

Measuring changes in ocean heat content is therefore an accurate way to monitor global warming. (www.csiro.au)
This ocean-monitoring battalion, called Argo, has provided consistent and widespread data on ocean heat content since the mid-2000s. (sciencedaily.com)
Three of the new studies included in the Science analysis calculated ocean heat content back to 1970 and before using new methods to correct for calibration errors and biases in the both the Argo and bathythermograph data. (sciencedaily.com)

Indian Ocean coral reefs are in danger of collapsing within the next 50 years, according to a new study. (inhabitat.com)

The main difference between the source areas of the two groups of clouds was the plankton productivity in the Southern Ocean. (spacedaily.com)

Silicon in rocks and minerals breaks down and is transported from rivers and streams into the world's oceans. (lu.se)

While you might find videos online purporting to prove the waters of two oceans don't mix , there is no possible way to separate any of the world's seawater. (yahoo.com)
Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean in 1520 when he sailed through a particularly peaceful corner of the ocean and named it for its tranquil waters. (yahoo.com)
Tides are the daily rise and fall of ocean waters along coastlines. (usra.edu)
What do we call this daily rise and fall of ocean waters along coastlines? (usra.edu)
But clouds with relatively high droplet densities were more likely to have originated over the Antarctic continent and to have passed only over the waters of the Southern Ocean. (spacedaily.com)
But the productivity of the ocean is tied to how much sunlight its waters receive - which is tied back to the reflectivity of clouds and the clouds' droplet densities. (spacedaily.com)

are the authors of the New York Times Bestseller Blue Ocean Shift and the 4 million copy global bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy . (blueoceanstrategy.com)
Less than 3% of the global ocean is free from human pressure. (iucn.org)
If you want to see where global warming is happening, look in our oceans," said Zeke Hausfather, a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the paper. (sciencedaily.com)
The global warming signal is a lot easier to detect if it is changing in the oceans than on the surface. (sciencedaily.com)
We take an integrated approach to our oceans, combining place-based conservation work to create Nature-Positive Seascapes with global scale Markets and Blue Finance initiatives. (worldwildlife.org)

Legislation nicknamed as 'The Empty Oceans Act'-because it threatens protections for marine species-is the first attempt by Congress to update this nation's most important oceans law, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. (earthjustice.org)

Ocean conservation groups objected to the fact that H.R. 4842 is taking aim at the very measures contained in the MSA that have led to the success we have seen in restoring our fisheries-deadlines for rebuilding overfished stocks, and science-based annual catch limits. (earthjustice.org)
As the reauthorization debate moves forward, ocean groups will point that conservation must be part of the discussion. (earthjustice.org)
It employs doctrinal legal methodology and semi-structured interviews, focusing on three case studies: Seychelles sovereign blue bond, Nordic Investment Bank blue bonds, and Belize debt-for-ocean conservation deal. (lu.se)

A manta ray glides past some coral in a deep blue ocean. (amnh.org)
Quick flashes of jellyfish, a submarine, a snorkeler holding bleached coral, and the ocean waves at the surface. (amnh.org)

Protecting the oceans protects these populations. (earth911.com)

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world. (yahoo.com)
A satellite image shows hurricanes forming above the Atlantic Ocean. (amnh.org)

But although anoxic oceans may seem alien to organisms like ourselves that breathe oxygen, they're full of life, she said. (countercurrents.org)

Just as air pollution is now forever linked in public thought to that gaping hole in the ozone, the Year of the Ocean is a consciousness-raising exercise. (csmonitor.com)

Six children represent the oceans, solid Earth, Moon, and Sun and move their bodies to show the interactions of these elements. (usra.edu)

Following the enthusiastic and successful meeting, the steering board of the TU Delft Ocean Energy Platform decided to utilise the expertise found at the University, promoting and developing the research activities within the energy community, at TU Delft and beyond. (tudelft.nl)
The aim of the platform is to stimulate research and education in ocean energies at Delft University of Technology. (tudelft.nl)
The steering group develops a joint research agenda, pursues funding opportunities, stimulates internal knowledge exchange, and takes care of external communication about ocean energy at Delft University. (tudelft.nl)
According to the research team's calculations, the Philippines hold the record with about 15 millimeters a year, while the levels are largely stable on the West Coast of the United States -- because there is hardly any ocean warming in that region. (eurekalert.org)
His research includes print and literary culture in the Indian Ocean, vernacular textual traditions in Muslim South Asia, and Islamic intellectual history among others. (lu.se)

Phylogenetic analysis revealed that these three CHIKVs were Indian Ocean lineage of the East Africa /Central/ South Africa genotype (ECSA) and that the MF773566 strain from Bangladesh ( Australia / Bangladesh 2017) had the closest evolutionary relationship. (bvsalud.org)

Like most of the bills passed out of Chairman Hasting's committee, the "Empty Oceans Act" would also runs roughshod over the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Marine Sanctuaries Act and the Antiquities Act. (earthjustice.org)

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