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Watching our seas rise

By Douglas Fox / November 8, 2012

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Satellites, coral reefs, ancient Roman fishponds and sinking cities help us understand how humans are changing sea level

Posted in Weather & Climate | Tagged Antarctica, Bruce Douglas, carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, corals, El Niño, ENSO, feature, Fernando Siringan, Florida State University, Fossil fuels, glaciers, global change, global warming, greenhouse gases, Greenland, Harold Wanless, Helsinki University of Technology, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Jason 2, Jason-3, Jeremy Weiss, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jonathan Overpeck, Josh Willis, JPL, KAMANAVA, Martin Vermeer, meltwater, Meltwater Pulse 1A, NASA, New Orleans, NOAA, ocean height, Paul Hearty, reefs, Robert Deyle, Roman fish ponds, satellites, sea level rise, subsidence, tide gauge, topstories, University of Arizona, University of Miami, University of North Carolina, University of the Philippines

Life beneath the ‘berg

By Stephen Ornes / June 1, 2011

Icebergs support thriving communities of living organisms above and below the water’s surface.

Scientists find Antarctic icebergs play a new and bigger role in the climate cycle

Posted in Environment & Pollution, Uncategorized | Tagged climate change, food chain, Fossil fuels, getinvolved, open ocean

Sea changes

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011

Blue patches indicate parts of the ocean that are more acidic than the yellow and red areas. Stars show coral reefs, which can lose their skeletons in more acidic water.

Carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic

Posted in Earth | Tagged acid, acids and bases, calcium carbonate, carbon dioxide, chem of life, climate change, coral reefs, ecology, Fossil fuels, invertebrates, Marine snail, Ocean, Ocean acidification, pH, sea changes, solutions, water

A Feverish World

By Agnieszka Biskup / May 5, 2008

Science News for Kids: The second of a two-part series on climate change

Posted in Earth | Tagged carbon dioxide, deforestation, ecology, Fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Drilling Deep for Fuel

By Emily Sohn / September 24, 2004

Stores of natural gas created by high temperatures and pressures may nestle deep in Earth’s mantle.

Posted in Earth | Tagged Chemosynthesis, Fossil fuels, Methanogens, open ocean

Deep Drilling at Sea

By Kate Ramsayer / August 30, 2004

Drilling holes deep into the seafloor unveils the ocean’s past and hints at Earth’s future.

Posted in Earth | Tagged Chemosynthesis, Fossil fuels, Methanogens, open ocean