As did the Dodo, so shall we go-go
Like an 18-wheeler, climate change can’t stop on a dime. We must slow down long before it is time to stop. Several tipping points have already gone past so we need to press the brake harder, but it still
CNN’s Rene Marsh investigates Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and their effects across the US. The CDC says PFAS are found in the bloodstreams of nearly all Americans, and they have been linked to many ailments including liver
The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average
The Gulf Stream is a powerful current of warm water running through the Atlantic Ocean. Starting in the Gulf of Mexico, the current travels around the Florida peninsula and accelerates up the East Coast of the United States and
MIT scientist Daniel Rothman explains that the Earth’s oceans may be at the ‘precipice of excitation’ due to carbon in the oceans, which would unleash a mass extinction of life.
Acidification is proceeding extremely fast today, in what is a human-caused sixth mass extinction. Some of the rapidly rising carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reacts with water forming carbonic acid, dissociating to bicarbonate ions, then carbonate ions, making the oceans much more acidic.
For many years, scientists have tried to account for the amount of plastic waste that should be in the world’s oceans, given how much is estimated to leak into the seas every year. So far, the tally points to the
It started with a dream to create a patch of heaven in Fiji, a surfer’s paradise right near one of the world’s most legendary waves, Cloudbreak. Navrin Fox and Woody Jack obtained a 99-year lease on land on Malolo
The consequences of the disappearance of sea ice from the Arctic ocean, however briefly, at the end of a summer melt season some time in the not too distant future, are potentially very ominous for the way we organize our human socioeconomic structures today.
The Great Ocean Conveyor, The Thermohaline Circulation, The Gulf Stream, AMOC…all terms we hear quite a lot these days. And they all seem to be linked with climate change, or even abrupt climate change according to some. The circulation
It’s not an island twice the size of Texas. But it is severely impacting marine life and human health… and incredibly hard to study. National Geographic: What Happens to the Plastic We Throw Out? VOX: We know ocean plastic
“We thought this was a relatively pristine environment.”