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Record warm oceans are causing third-ever global coral bleaching event
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The world's third-ever global coral bleaching event is now underway, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) along with a consortium of other researchers around the world. Mashable first reported the strong possibility that a global event would be declared in October, pending observations of coral bleaching in the Caribbean and Bahamas, which has now taken place. This bleaching event, which began in the north Pacific in the summer of 2014 and expanded to the south...
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MIT study shows climate change mitigation potential of geoengineering oceans
2015-09-14 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Like the leaves of New England maples, phytoplankton, the microalgae at the base of most oceanic food webs, photosynthesize when exposed to sunlight. In the process, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, converting it to carbohydrates and oxygen. Many phytoplankton species also release dimethyl sulfide (DMS) into the atmosphere, where it forms sulfate aerosols, which can directly reflect sunlight or increase cloud cover and reflectivity, resulting in a cooling effect. The ability of phytoplankton...
Tiny plants on ocean's surface help build clouds, research shows
2015-09-12 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Microscopic plants that grow on the thin surface of the ocean can influence cloud formation miles above. The discovery, published this week in the journal Nature, gives scientists a better understanding of how clouds are made in some parts of the world. It also could improve their forecasts of how global warming will affect cloud cover. Clouds are made mostly of water, but not entirely. Each water droplet or ice crystal that makes up a cloud forms around a tiny airborne particle no more than...
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Antarctic Ocean's carbon dioxide absorption increased: Study
2015-09-11 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing levels of carbon dioxide over the past decade, a new study has found, dispelling fears that the ocean's carbon sink might have begun to "saturate". The Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and releases it back later in the year. On an annual average the seas surrounding Antarctica absorb significantly more CO2 than they release. These seas rem ..
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Bluewater: Oceans of Technology
2015-09-09 15:26:00| Offshore Technology
Since its foundation in 1978, Bluewater has built a technological lead specialising in design, development, lease and operation of tanker-based production and storage systems, and is a leading provider of innovative single-point mooring systems.
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