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White and bright blue icebergs against a dark blue ocean photographed from above.
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Scientists Find Clues to Atlantic Current’s Future in Ancient Iceberg Debris

by Elise Cutts 23 July 202413 September 2025

Modern ice loss from Greenland rivals the most dramatic episodes of ice sheet collapse.

A black-and-white image from an electron microscope shows a gray substance made up of many smaller uneven balls of material (similar to Nerds Rope candy).
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Microbes Likely Form Magnetite in the South China Sea

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 22 July 202423 August 2024

Researchers sampled sediment cores and found that where magnetite was abundant, methane-producing bacteria were as well.

Figure from the study showing a map and globe.
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Ocean Impacts on European Winter Weather

by Hannah Christensen 16 July 202416 July 2024

State-of-the-art high-resolution models are needed to reveal the ocean’s role in driving extra-tropical weather systems.

Two people install a permeable reactive barrier next to open water.
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Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

by Alix Soliman 15 July 202415 July 2024

Microbes in mulch scrub nitrate from groundwater before it flows to the sea.

Diagram from the paper.
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Physics + Machine Learning Provide a Better Map of Ocean Measurements

by Stephen M. Griffies and Oliver Watt-Meyer 15 July 202411 July 2024

A new study offers a compelling example where the merger of dynamical modeling, machine learning, and ocean measurements enhances oceanographic understanding, monitoring, and mapping.

A screenshot of a video taken from a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle shows white ash settled on the seafloor near the Hunga eruption in Tongan waters.
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The Tonga Eruption Left Deep-Sea Life Buried in Ash

by Andrew Chapman 11 July 202411 July 2024

When Hunga erupted in 2022, ash “decimated” slow-moving species living on the seafloor. More mobile species were able to hoof it out of harm’s way.

一只头上绑着天线的海豹坐在草丛中,对着镜头微笑。
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海豹帮助科学家在南极洲别林斯高晋海取得新发现

by Nathaniel Scharping 1 July 20241 July 2024

研究人员通过分析海豹和水下滑翔机收集的水文信息,发现了新的融水流,以及一个新的海底槽。

Viewed from below, three sharks swim beneath a dense school of smaller fish in the ocean, all in shades of blue.
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In Hot Water and Beyond: Marine Extremes Escalate

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 28 June 202428 June 2024

A new study suggests marine life is increasingly faced with triple-threat events in which extreme water temperature, low oxygen levels, and acidification converge.

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Radar Data Show Thwaites Gets a Daily Bath of Warm Seawater

by Anupama Chandrasekaran 27 June 202427 June 2024

The Doomsday Glacier, predicted to raise global sea level by more than half a meter, could be exposed to more warm ocean water than previously thought.

Two maps from the paper.
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Dual Tsunami Generation from Atmospheric and Oceanic Sources

by Ryan P. Mulligan 24 June 202424 June 2024

The 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption generated waves that propagated across the Pacific Ocean. A new analysis of sea level measurements is used to dissect the difference in wave components from two sources.

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