Ocean Iron Fertilization

A recent study has analyzed the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) using computer models and found no evidence of a long-term weakening over the past 60 years.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and partners discover new ocean predator in the Atacama Trench

Deep ocean clues to a million-year-old Ice Age puzzle revealed in new study, which provides fresh insights into the ocean’s role in climate during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, an enigmatic interval of change in climate cycles that began about one million years ago.

Study finds the gulf stream is warming and shifting closer to shore

New Study Definitively Confirms Gulf Stream Weakening - The Gulf Stream transport of water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with 99% certainty that this weakening is more than expected from random chance…

Sunlight can break down marine plastic into tens of thousands of chemical compounds

Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron (2007)

Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century

Nitrogen is the main constituent of the Earth’s atmosphere, but its provenance in the Earth’s mantle has remained uncertain

The beloved anemone fish popularized by the movie “Finding Nemo” don’t have the genetic capacity to adapt to rapid changes in their environment

Cold waters that sank in polar regions hundreds of years ago during the Little Ice Age are still impacting deep Pacific Ocean temperature trends

New research has found the fingerprint of a massive flood of fresh water in the western Arctic, thought to be the cause of an ancient cold snap that began around 13,000 years ago.

Colonies of breeding king penguins resemble the movements of molecules in a 2D liquid, as they attract and repel one another in a constrained planar space

Previously Unknown "Supercolony" of more than 1,500,000 Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica.

Beaches found to be releasing radioactive cesium into ocean 60 miles from Fukushima

The impact of climate change on Antarctic sea ice threatens Emperor penguin colonies, which are unlikely to benefit from migrating to more hospitable locations

Study Finds Accelerated Warming of the Continental Shelf Off Northeast Coast