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Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
2014-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two centuries, the sea's acidity level has risen 26 per cent, mirroring the proportion of carbon dioxide it absorbs from the air, they said in a report to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in South Korea. Rising acidity will have damaging consequences for shellfish, corals...
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US east coast cities to be severely affected by climate change, scientists warn
2014-10-08 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Union of Concerned Scientists has said that over the next 15 to 30 years, Mid-Atlantic communities and some of the most important cities on the US east coast will experience severe floods and high tides, as worsening climate change raises sea levels and causes more extreme weather. In a new report, Encroaching Tides: How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities over the Next 30 Years, experts suggest that in the next 15 years cities including Miami Beach...
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Scientists Discover Worlds Oceans Warming Faster Than Predicted
2014-10-06 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The oceans are warming faster than previously thought, according to a pair of new studies released this weekend and published in the scientific journal Natural Climate Change. This conclusion is largely due to enhanced information gathering in the southern oceans, which was limited in the past. The research teams compared previous ocean warming figures, based on the less complete data, with projections based on information they were able to obtain from more detailed studies. They found that from...
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Scientists may have missed massive ocean warming
2014-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Mag: Earths oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the warming caused by greenhouse gases, researchers estimate, with the stored heat showing up as warmer seawater. But a new analysis suggests scientists may have underestimated the size of the heat sink in the upper ocean--which could have implications for researchers trying to understand the pace and scale of past warming. Seas pose a formidable challenge to climate scientists. On one hand, they are as big a player in the global climate system as...
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Nobel Prize awarded to scientists for discovering the brains inner GPS system
2014-10-06 15:27:25| Extremetech
2014's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for their discovery of the brain's 'inner GPS' system. The prize revolves around their discovery of place cells and grid cells in the brain that appear to create a cognitive map of every room or space that you've ever explored. As you move around a room or space, a very specific place cell fires -- and when you visit the same place again in the future, the same place cell fires every time.
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