Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world’s oceans, and a new MIT study finds that over the coming decades these changes will affect the ocean’s color, intensifying its blue regions and its green ones.
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Tracking Conflict And The Wolf
Thousands of people cross the border between Oregon and Idaho every day without anyone batting an eye.
Study of Brine Discharge from Desalination Plant Finds Good News and Bad News
Brine discharged from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant raises offshore salinity levels more than permitted, but researchers found no direct local impacts on sea life.
University of Toronto Researchers To Design Microsatellites For Arctic Monitoring
Researchers from the University of Toronto will develop three microsatellites to help support next-generation situational awareness in Canada’s North.
Variations in Seafloor Create Freak Ocean Waves
Florida State University researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known as rogue or freak waves — waves so catastrophic that they were once thought to be the figments of seafarers’ imaginations.
A Water Quality Mystery, Solved in Antarctica
In one of the coldest, driest places on Earth, CU Boulder scientists have developed a possible answer to a longstanding mystery about the chemistry of streamflow, which may have broad implications for watersheds and water quality around the world.