Ocean samples collected from around the world produced a twelvefold increase in the number of marine viruses known. A portion of the Arctic Ocean has “surprisingly high diversity.”
Oceans
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Water, Water Everywhere—But How Much H2O?
A new study quantifies the abundance of single and bonded H2O molecules in the ocean.
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Global Warming Hits Marine Life Hardest
The lack of thermal refugia in the ocean means marine life has nowhere to escape from rising sea temperatures.
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Untangling a Web of Interactions Where Surf Meets Coastal Ocean
In 2017, an ocean research team launched an unprecedented effort to understand what drives ocean currents in the overlap regions between surf zones and continental shelves.
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Earth’s Ripple Effect
The ocean’s interactions with land, air, and ice create an intricate planetary dance.
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Explaining Ocean Acidification Patterns During Ancient Warming
Asymmetrical changes in ocean circulation and the marine carbon cycle could account for different degrees of ocean acidification between the Pacific and Atlantic.
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Seismologists Search for the Indian Ocean’s “Missing Mass”
An Indian scientific team set out to sea last year to find clues to the source of an unusually weak gravitational potential in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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Distinguishing Pacific and Atlantic Contributions to the Arctic
A semi-conservative tracer combining nitrate and dissolved oxygen is more accurate than traditional tracers in distinguishing between Atlantic and Pacific water mass contributions to the Arctic.
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Progress in Ocean Salinity Science
2018 Ocean Salinity Science Conference; Paris, France, 6–9 November 2018
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Satellite Imagery Reveals Plastic Garbage in the Ocean
Using high-resolution satellite data, scientists pinpoint discarded plastics floating off the coasts of Canada and Scotland.