Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Ocean Conservancy: Can you give us an overview of your current research? It’s a cool field to study because there are so many facets and rabbit holes that you can go down to get a holistic picture of how evolutionary forces produce skull shape. Every fish is cool.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A climate-cooling La Niña pattern was expected to develop in the Pacific Ocean months ago, but forecasters now say it won't appear until November

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the water cycle and how it impacts the weather and our ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As ocean waters warm , more water evaporates into the air, which then results in more intense and frequent rain or snow.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

First, it’s been obvious for months that 2023 would be a record year – in temperatures (at the surface, troposphere and in the ocean), in Antarctic sea ice, in the number of big climate disasters etc. Ongoing issues Last year at this time, I discussed ongoing work to understand trends in the Southern Ocean. Why oh why?

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 5, 2022

Jump on in and take a trip down to Bikini Bottom with us and meet some of the real ocean animals behind this world-renowned cartoon cast! But, for the sake of this blog (and the fact that the series’ creator was a marine science teacher and thought sea sponges were super cool and underrepresented animals), let’s say he’s a sea sponge.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Figure adapted from Caesar et al., Nature 2018.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. While the animals that delighted our childhood like the Stegosaurus or the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the land, the sea was also teeming with cool and unusual life. See more wonderful ocean animals! Mosasaurus. ©

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Real Climate

JANUARY 15, 2022

Unlike in years past, there is no longer any serious discrepancy between the records – which use multiple approaches for the ocean temperatures, the homogenization of the weather stations records, and interpolation. Southern Ocean trends. The least visited part of the ocean are the waters around Antarctica.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Each storm made history in its own right: Beryl was the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, Helene broke rainfall records in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and destroyed tens of mountain communities, and Milton was the second fastest intensifying storm since 1979.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

More and more climate scientists are supporting experiments to cool Earth by altering the stratosphere or the ocean

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, for our ocean and the planet, the real fright comes from plastic waste. Plastic candy wrappers, plastic decorations and other plastic waste have serious impacts on our ocean and marine life. Love ocean content? Our ocean is counting on us to take a stand, and together—we can make a difference. We are too.

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Cool Green Science

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The post Scenario Planning: Imagining a Healthy Future for Fisheries and Oceans appeared first on Cool Green Science. How understanding the future can help us make informed decisions in the present.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

It wasn’t long after dawn—still the cool of the day—but I could feel the weight of summer bearing down. I was probably the largest creature walking around these quiet woods, and it would soon be too hot for me to think about anything except reaching the ocean on a vacation still a few weeks in the future.

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New Scientist

JUNE 12, 2023

Clouds of dust blown from the Sahara desert generally have a cooling effect on the North Atlantic, but the winds that blow the dust are weaker than usual, possibly due to El Niño

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. As the ocean warms, it expands. That adds water to the oceans, which raises their level. Cool, right?)

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Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

The mix of warming and cooling effects and different timescales for each, makes calculating the impact hard. a net cooling!). W/m 2 over the ocean (which translates to 0.14 2024) Looked at the impact of Chinese aerosol emission decreases from 2010 to 2020 and saw increases in North Pacific ocean temperatures.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 26, 2024

My favorite creatures in the ocean are the weird ones. They can be found in the benthic zone, the sandy bottom of the ocean. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 29, 2024

The post 7 Strange Species from the Ocean’s Depths appeared first on Cool Green Science. Eye-eating worms, crabs that look like a yeti, and eels that help fish hunt.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The surface of Venus may have remained extremely hot since its formation, meaning that water in the atmosphere never had a chance to fall to the surface

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2024

With the flip of a switch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s seaside facility in Sequim, Washington, a tangle of pipes and filters whirrs into action, scrubbing acid from the cool gray waters of the Salish Sea. It’s the pilot project of Ebb Carbon, one of several … Continue reading Climate change is ravaging the oceans.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 26, 2024

What dives deeper than a submarine, swims across oceans, is covered in polka-dots, and has a mouth straight out of a horror movie? The post Meet the Leatherback: A Giant, Deep-Diving Migrant of the Open Seas appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

New research finds coral refugia, where reefs are protected from global warming by cool local currents, are disappearing faster than expected. By Bob Berwyn In the race to save at least some remnants of the world’s coral reefs, a new study shows only one thing really matters—capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And yes, even though they dwell on the ocean floor, they have a couple of characteristics in common with their feline namesake. See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Filetail Catshark This catshark has a cool tail!

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. All of which adds to the uncertainty.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These are needed at global, regional and ‘thematic’ levels – given the diverse scales of tipping elements in oceans, forests and the cryosphere, for example. This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Unexpectedly, the eastern Pacific Ocean is cooling. If this “cold tongue” continues, it could reduce greenhouse gas warming by 30 per cent – but also bring megadrought to the US

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 12, 2021

Historical illustrations give us a glimpse into the scientific research of the past—and they can be very cool to look at! Previously, we dug through the BHL archives to bring you some of our favorite ocean , shark , shell and cephalopod illustrations from the 18 th and 19 th centuries. See more weird and wild animals.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 6, 2022

High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, and cooling in that ocean over coming decades should therefore temporarily compensate for the city's sea level rise

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Background.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 26, 2022

A start-up has developed data centre pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. The latter is one of the interventions that researchers in the RRAP Cooling and Shading program are working on.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2023

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2023

Animals around the world and throughout our ocean are impacted by changing temperatures. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As with everything in nature, there are a few cool exceptions. And humans aren’t the only ones that are affected.

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Cool Green Science

MAY 23, 2021

These eight-legged oddballs of the ocean have always had a dedicated fanclub, and the recent documentary My Octopus Teacher helped millions more people fall in love with them. And yet, I’d argue that anyone but the most… The post Meet the Argonaut, The World’s Weirdest Octopus appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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