The latest issue of Nature promises temporary relief to a planet where fresh water is quickly becoming scarcer and scarcer (photo: cc, from freeaussiestock.com). Vincent E.A. Post of Flinders University … [Read full article]
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New Research Shows How Carbon is Stored in Southern Ocean
British and Australian researchers working on data collected over a ten-year period from robotic probes wandering around the Southern Ocean have discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn … [Read full article]
An Ice-Free Arctic Ocean Will Not Absorb More CO2
An international team of climate and ocean scientists, led by Wei-Jun Cai (U of Georgia, Athens), predicts that the “Arctic Ocean basin will not become a large atmospheric CO2 sink under ice-free conditions.” Using data from a 2008 high-resolution survey of the entire Canada Basin, the team explains the complex “air-sea flux” and other reasons why sea-surface CO2 continues to increase.
Increased Ocean Salinity Shows Intensified Water Cycle
A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the American Journal of Climate showcases evidence that the world’s water cycle has intensified. [social_buttons]The new study, co-authored by … [Read full article]