Ancient Oceans Began Losing Oxygen Millions of Years before End-Triassic Mass Extinction
Chemical traces maintained in ancient rocks show that marine environments were degrading long before the disaster that erased large varieties of types at the end of the Triassic duration, around…
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In Cretaceous Oceans, Giant ‘Kraken-Like’ Octopuses May Have Been Top Predators
Huge, soft-bodied cephalopods approximately 19 m (62 feet) long equaled– and maybe hunted– the ocean’s fiercest reptiles in the Cretaceous duration, according to brand-new research study led by Hokkaido University…
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Last year, the oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat — equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs exploding every second
(Image credit: Thomas Vimare/Unsplash) The ocean absorbed more heat in 2015 than in any year considering that contemporary measurements started around 1960, according to a brand-new analysis released in Advances…
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The oceans just keep getting hotter
Given that 2018, a group of scientists from all over the world has actually crunched the numbers on just how much heat the world’s oceans are soaking up each year….
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Ocean’s ‘heart’ is slowing down — and it will affect the entire planet’s circulation
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the greatest ocean present in the world. (Image credit: European Union, Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service) Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth’s greatest ocean present,…
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