New research shows climate change can drive sudden ocean cooling too. This can have devastating effects on marine life such as bull sharks and manta rays.
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Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
The Great Barrier Reef is facing its worst summer of sustained heat stress since the mass bleaching event of 1998, but now with less time to recover amid repeated brutal conditions.
The same instruments used to measure earthquakes pick up vibrations as ocean waves put pressure on the sea floor. Four decades of data tell a story about ocean storms.
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
A climate overshoot that creates warmer oceans with lower oxygen levels will reduce the suitable habitat for many marine species long after CO₂ levels have peaked and declined.
UK is home to a diverse range of jellyfish species – encounters with them may become more frequent as the ocean warms.
Coral has been incorporated into traditions, art and even religion in communities around the world.
The Pacific Ocean is entering the hot phase of its temperature cycle, an event that will turbo-charge global warming.
Over the past three years, Earth’s climate system has accumulated an average of 11 Hiroshima bombs’ worth of excess energy per second. And it’s showing in the current surge in ocean temperature.
New research has unravelled the mystery of why sea sponges die when the water gets too warm. The cause of death appears to be the sudden loss of microbes that usually act to detoxify sponge tissue.
The official forecast calls for a strong El Niño by winter, but other models suggest it might dip in and out. An atmospheric scientist explains.
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering with what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
We know the oceans are warming, but we have fewer measurements in coastal waters where most fisheries and aquaculture operate. Now the fishing industry is helping scientists to track the changes.
There is only a single mooring managed by French researchers that monitors the impacts of climate change on West African Canary Current.
Two hurricane and climate scientists explain what’s known – and still unknown – about global warming’s influence on intensity, rainfall and much more.
The meteorologist leading NOAA’s 2022 hurricane field program describes flying through eyewalls and the technology in these airborne labs for tracking rapid intensification in real time.
Forming tightly woven populations, these bush-like corals offer a refuge to a myriad of marine species.
The oceans around New Zealand are warming faster in winter than in summer. During the winter of 2021, most coastal areas were warmer than usual, and this is likely to bring more storms during summer.
New Zealand’s conservation needs to consider the long-term impact of climate change and focus not only on protecting native species but on preserving ecological richness.
Top contributors
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Marine Botany, The University of Western Australia
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MetOcean Solutions Science Manager of the Research and Development Team. Moana Project Science Lead, MetService — Te Ratonga Tirorangi
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Director Permanent Carbon Locking Future Science Platform (CarbonLock), CSIRO Environment, CSIRO
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Associate Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in sea level and flooding, University of Southampton
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Professor of Fisheries, Ecosystem Modelling / Research Scientist, University of Tasmania
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Oceanographer, CSIRO
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Southampton
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Faculty and Research Fellow, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, and Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University
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Marine ecologist, CSIRO
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Research Fellow in Fisheries, UNSW Sydney
