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Oceans

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

Where and How Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas and Communities

by Alberto Montanari 19 March 202418 March 2024

To better understand how sea-level rise threatens coastal areas, scientists propose a new indicator to estimate the risk of coastal flooding under climate change.

Stacked sedimentary rock layers of different thicknesses make up a turbidite bed.
Posted inScience Updates

Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes

by Valerie Sahakian, Debi Kilb, Joan Gomberg, Nora Nieminski and Jake Covault 18 March 202418 March 2024

Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.

Philippe Lebaron and Sabine Matallana-Surget position their experiments near Pensacola Beach, Fla.
Posted inNews

Ocean Pollution Makes Microbes Adapt

by Martin J. Kernan 18 March 202418 March 2024

Some bacteria thrive in the sometimes-toxic soup of crude oil and chemical dispersants.

Diversidad de corales en un arrecife.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

La química del agua somera podría hacer a los arrecifes más resistente a la acidificación del océano

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 18 March 202418 March 2024

Estudios de los Cayos de Florida revelan variaciones geográficas y temporales en los efectos de la acidificación en corales.

Aerial photo of the Bahamian coastline with the ocean and a sandy shoreline
Posted inNews

Scientists Quantify Blue Carbon in Bahamas Seagrass

by Robin Donovan 14 March 202414 March 2024

The island nation’s underwater fields store huge reserves of carbon, though not as much as scientists thought.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

ارتفاع درجة حرارة المحيطات يمهد الطريق لحدوث موجات جفاف خطيرة، ولكن يمكن التنبؤ بها، في شرق أفريقيا

by Saima May Sidik 13 March 202413 March 2024

اكتشف العلماء رابطة بين التدرجات الحرارية في المحيط الهادئ وبين موجات الجفاف الفتاكة والتي يمكن التنبؤ بها في شرق أفريقيا.

View from a remotely operated vehicle looking down at the seabed, showing rounded lumps of black lava sitting on top of red clay.
Posted inNews

A Long-Lost Tropical Island Lies Off Brazil’s Coast

by Erin Martin-Jones 12 March 202425 October 2024

An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic was a tropical island 45 million years ago.

Un iceberg flota en el océano cerca de Antártica.
Posted inNews

La acidez del océano antártico aumentará rápidamente a finales del siglo

by Nathaniel Scharping 11 March 202411 March 2024

Nuevos estudios muestran que los niveles de acidez podrían llegar a duplicarse para el 2100, poniendo en peligro los ecosistemas frágiles del gélido Océano Austral.

A sea otter floats in water, looking at the camera.
Posted inNews

Sea Otters’ Appetite for Crab Is Helping Strengthen Estuary Banks

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 6 March 20246 March 2024

Apex predators can have a powerful impact on coastal erosion rates by keeping grazer populations down, but their influence has been largely overlooked.

Ocean eddies swirl across a coastal stretch in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Posted inNews

Mapping the Ocean’s Motion Energy

by Veronika Meduna 5 March 20245 March 2024

The ocean is a central component of Earth’s climate system. But it is in perpetual motion, and understanding the transfer of kinetic energy is key to better ocean models.

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