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Deep oceans may be storing heat
2013-11-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Far below the surface, the waters of south-east Asia are heating up. A region of the Pacific is now warming at least 15 times faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. If this finding so far limited to the depths where the Pacific and Indian Oceans wash into each other is true for the blue planet as a whole, then the questions of climate change take on a new urgency. Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers University in New Brunswick and colleagues from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia...
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The future of the oceans: Acid test
2013-11-24 14:38:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: HUMANS, being a terrestrial species, are pleased to call their home Earth. A more honest name might be Sea, as more than seven-tenths of the planets surface is covered with salt water. Moreover, this water houses algae, bacteria (known as cyanobacteria) and plants that generate about half the oxygen in the atmosphere. And it also provides seafood--at least 15% of the protein eaten by 60% of the planets human population, an industry worth $218 billion a year. Its well-being is therefore of direct...
Fishing communities will face warmer, acid oceans
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Eating fish has been an integral part of the Caribbean`s cultural traditions for centuries. Fish is also a major source of food and essential nutrients, especially in rural areas where there are scores of small coastal communities. "That is the protein that they have to put in their pot, and sometimes it has to stretch for very many mouths," Dr. Susan Singh-Renton, deputy executive director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), told IPS."Globally we have to be prepared for significant...
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Emissions of CO2 driving rapid oceans 'acid trip'
2013-11-14 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The world's oceans are becoming acidic at an "unprecedented rate" and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years. In their strongest statement yet on this issue, scientists say acidification could increase by 170% by 2100. They say that some 30% of ocean species are unlikely to survive in these conditions. The researchers conclude that human emissions of CO2 are clearly to blame. The study will be presented at global climate talks in Poland next week. ...
Scientists Warn of Hot, Sour, Breathless Oceans
2013-11-13 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Greenhouse gases are making the world's oceans hot, sour and breathless, and the way those changes work together is creating a grimmer outlook for global waters, according to a new report Wednesday from 540 international scientists. The world's oceans are getting more acidic at an unprecedented rate, faster than at any time in the past 300 million years, the report said. But it's how this interacts with other global warming impacts to waters that scientists say is getting them even more worried....
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