Shutdown Or Not, US Bets $25 Million On Next-Generation Marine Energy
The US Dept. of Energy bets another $ 25 million on marine energy R&D, eyeballing a potential clean power payoff of 1,400 terrawatt-hours per year
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Low-Oxygen Ocean Dead Zones Could Make Marine Life Extinct, Study Shows
In a new study, a group of researchers used an ancient mass extinction event as an analog to demonstrate how the current course of global climate change could prove devastating for marine life in the future. Some 182 to 174 million years ago, during the …
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Ocean temps stabilize as marine heatwave ‘the Blob’ retreats
“If you look in the North Pacific, the deep water is still very warm,” Toby Garfield said. “Which means there’s still a lot of heat being stored.” In addition, last summer, there was a major low-oxygen event that caused crab die-offs. Warm water …
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Low oxygen “dead-zones” can be deadlier to marine life than we thought
The runoff travels with rivers into the ocean and provides abundant nutrients to algae which then bloom and use up the oxygen in the area to reproduce. Many of these dead-zones occur in estuaries because the run-off usually comes in from rivers.
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Antarctica Expedition to Explore Mysterious Marine Life Once Hidden by Larsen C Ice Shelf – Newsweek
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Antarctica Expedition to Explore Mysterious Marine Life Once Hidden by Larsen C Ice Shelf
Newsweek Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey are taking off this Wednesday to explore a once-inaccessible marine ecosystem beneath the Larsen C ice shelf—where an iceberg the size of Delaware broke off last summer. The 2,240 square-mile iceberg that … Scientists Set to Explore Mysterious Seafloor Exposed by Antarctica's Giant Iceberg Scientists Rush to Explore Underwater World Hidden Below Ice for 120000 Years A New Fabulous Expedition In Antarctica Will Be Conducted By A UK Team |
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Oxygen Depletion In The Ocean Compromises Marine Life
As the impact of global warming is growing, many things around us have started to change. The ocean is also starting to lose oxygen rapidly. Furthermore, oxygen depletion in the ocean could mean that a lot of marine life in the ocean is being jeopardized.
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Marine animals at risk as the ocean rapidly loses oxygen
The ocean is quickly losing oxygen, which could lead to the death of marine life in those waters. A review published in Science Magazine details the causes, consequences and solutions, to what they call “deoxygenation.” In the past 50 years the amount …
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World’s largest marine reserve created in Antarctica – Sky News – Sky News
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World's largest marine reserve created in Antarctica – Sky News
Sky News The Ross Sea marine reserve covers 1.5 million square km of some of the last stretches of ocean unharmed by human activity. Lewis Pugh: In the zone |
World’s largest marine reserve created in Antarctica – Sky News
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World's largest marine reserve created in Antarctica
Sky News The Ross Sea marine reserve covers 1.5 million square km of some of the last stretches of ocean unharmed by human activity. 09:44, UK, Friday 01 December 2017. The protected area stretches 1.55m sq km. Image: The protected area stretches 1.55m sq km … World's second largest marine sanctuary created 'effectively in New Zealand's back yard' Lewis Pugh: In the zone |
Drive for giant new marine sanctuary in Antarctica – News24
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Drive for giant new marine sanctuary in Antarctica
News24 Sydney – Australia and France kick off a fresh push on Monday to create a vast marine sanctuary in pristine East Antarctica, hoping to build on the success of a landmark deal secured last year at a key annual conservation summit. The fate of the plan … Australia Reaffirms Commitment to East Antarctica Protection Plan East Antarctic marine park hopes build after seven years on table … |