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Arctic Ocean Acidification Worse Than Previously Expected

The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models.
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Antarctic Sea Ice Loss Explained in New Study

Scientists have discovered that summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometres – an area twice the size of Spain – in the last five years, with implications for the marine ecosystem. >> Read the Full Article
Refining Projections of Antarctic Ice Loss and Global Sea Level Rise

Antarctica is rapidly shedding ice, a loss that contributes to rising seas.
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How Global Regulators Are Selling Out the World’s Largest Tuna

In 2010, after years of global headlines highlighting the runaway harvest of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the international regulatory agency managing this endangered fish capitulated. >> Read the Full Article
Climate Models Underestimate CO2 Emissions from Permafrost by 14 Percent, Study Finds

Climate change models have underestimated the amount of carbon dioxide that will be emitted from thawing permafrost by as much as 14 percent, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. >> Read the Full Article
Coal-Burning in Siberia Led to Climate Change 250 Million Years Ago

A team of researchers led by Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event. >> Read the Full Article
Over a Dozen New Papers Describe Discoveries at MBARI’s Long-Term Deep-Sea Research Site Off California

For 30 years, MBARI ecologist Ken Smith and his colleagues have studied deep-sea communities at a research site called Station M, located 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) below the ocean’s surface and 290 kilometers (180 miles) off the coast of Central California. >> Read the Full Article
What Has Caused More Extreme Summer Heat Events over Northeast Asia?

Widespread hot extremes are seen across the world in recent years, causing heat-related mortality and harmed crops and livestock.
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Where Have the Swans Gone?

Nearly 13 kilometres per year: that is the rate at which the wintering area of Bewick's swans has shifted east over the past 50 years.
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A Carbon Sink Shrinks In The Arctic

New research by University of Delaware doctoral student Zhangxian Ouyang and oceanographer Wei-Jun Cai, and an international team of researchers, demonstrates that rapid warming and sea-ice loss have induced major changes in the western Arctic Ocean.
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