Environment
Causes of increased Atlantic hurricane wind speed in 2024
Human-caused warming of ocean temperatures has increased the maximum wind speeds of every Atlantic hurricane in 2024.
Warm Ocean
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Oceanography
Global warming causes many marine animals to die en masse because of... cold
The effects of ocean warming are profound and well documented. But sometimes changes in wind patterns and ocean currents have counterintuitive consequences.
Alien
NASA spacecraft finds new 'life world' with warm ocean
The new understanding has greatly expanded the definition of a habitable world - scientists conclude about Mimas, Saturn's seemingly deadly moon.
Oceanography
The ocean heats up the equivalent of each person opening 100 microwaves
The heat in the world's oceans hit a new record in 2019, showing warming
Oceanography
'Shark cafe' in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Large sharks live off California migrating to the waters between Baja California, Mexico and Hawaii, USA. It is an area of 260km wide with the nickname the white shark…
Oceanography
The risk of food poisoning increases because the ocean is warmer
The density of cholera-causing bacteria and food poisoning in seawater increases significantly due to rising temperatures in the oceans.
Biology
Heat-resistant coral reefs: struggle to survive when the Earth heats up
Experts say more than half of the reefs may disappear within the next 50 years, largely due to climate change, causing ocean temperatures to rise.
Environment
Rising sea level ink threatens to submerge many cities
According to scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA), many cities may be engulfed by seawater in the next 100-200 years.
Environment
Gulf Stream warm currents are releasing methane from the sea floor
A large amount of bio-carbon on Earth is stored under the seabed as methane hydrate, a frozen mixture of methane and water.