The oceans' warmest 10 years on record were all measured in the past decade.
… Climate warning from ocean warming John Besley | 14th January 2020 … & Systems Climate Breakdown Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued In 2019 Advances In Atmospheric Sciences Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean 22826807-1.jpg The …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns climate breakdown is having a significant impact on the oceans.
… 2019 News Science & Systems Climate Breakdown Oceans Intergovernmental Panel On Climate … is having a significant impact on the oceans. A new UN report is set to warn that … change is having a significant impact on the oceans, with millions in coastal communities …
The UK Government claims that three million square kilometres of ocean is 'protected' in Overseas Territories, while still permitting commercial fishing.
… that three million square kilometres of ocean is 'protected' in Overseas Territories, … closer inspection, the claims of how much ocean has actually been properly protected are … best scientific evidence and local use of the oceans, and support their effective ongoing …
Toxic microplastic pollution glitters amid the iconic yellow seaweed in the Sargasso.
… August 2019 News Science & Systems Atlantic Ocean Microplastics Marine Pollution CNN … our plastic filth, making it one of the five ocean garbage patches. Poisonous waste The … you are broken up pieces of plastic. Most ocean plastic is first discarded on land, not …
Biofouling leads the turtles into an 'olfactory trap' - causing them to ingest deadly marine plastic pieces.
… But researchers found plastics in the ocean trap microbes and algae, which then … reacted to the smell of turtle food, ocean-soaked plastic, clean plastic and water. … but responded to the odours of food and ocean-soaked plastics by displaying foraging …
Deep-sea ecosystems under threat from an emerging ocean industry.
… ecosystems under threat from an emerging ocean industry. If you ask someone to describe … ecosystems under threat from an emerging ocean industry… and virtually no-one knows … types of mineral resources on the deep-ocean floor: potato-sized manganese nodules, …
Sky Ocean Rescue, WWF and Swansea University launch biggest UK seagrass restoration project ever undertaken.
… 2019 News Science & Systems Seagrass Sky Ocean Rescue WWF Swansea University Change Makers 21921935-1.jpg Sky Ocean Rescue, WWF and Swansea University … change, conservationists have said. Sky Ocean Rescue, conservation organisation WWF …
Every colony surveyed on Elephant Island has seen numbers of breeding pairs drop since the last survey in 1971.
… Elephant Island. Reduced sea ice and warmer oceans, as a result of climate change, is … in penguin numbers suggest that the Southern Ocean's ecosystem has fundamentally changed in … set in March 2015. Louisa Casson, Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner, said: "Penguins are an …
The three year study involves academics from the University of Stirling, University of Glasgow, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Clark University in America.
… Study to prompt action on ocean plastic Staff Reporter | 6th March 2019 News Ocean Plastic Academic Research University Of … eight countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. Researchers will seek to map the …
University of Oregon oceanographer Dave Sutherland studied the subsurface melting of the LeConte Glacier.
… & Systems 21653895-1.jpg University of Oregon oceanographer Dave Sutherland studied the … in Antarctica by boring through to the ice-ocean interface beneath. But where there are vertical-face glaciers that end at the ocean, those techniques are not possible. …
We who are active in social movements should try harder to work together with climate scientists.
… – on limiting warming to 1.5 degrees , on oceans and ice sheets , and on land and … Society, introducing the IPCC report on oceans and the cryosphere (that’s ice, to us … discussion in the IPCC group that drafted the oceans report. “We feel that the science is …
EU Copernicus Climate Change Service and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts will confirm on Monday if July was hottest ever recorded.
… systems and the slow sloshing about of the ocean can sometimes temporarily warm or cool … of the physics of the atmosphere and oceans confirms that our climate is heating … which are known to warm faster than the oceans." Tens of thousands of people can die …
The past five years were the warmest during our 170-year temperature records and the 2010s were the hottest decade.
… from land on all continents and from all oceans. The data shows that temperatures were … from US agencies Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) … by about 1.1C since pre-industrial times, ocean heat was at record levels and, on the …
Rapid melting of Greenland ice sheet compared to 'Niagara Falls'.
… around the world. Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of … Amazon rainforest and an island in the Indian Ocean. Trouble The race will take place in …
It has been twelve years since the adoption of a European action plan to protect the eel: what's been achieved?
… 1980, when recruitment of young eel from the ocean crashed, decreasing for thirty years in … actually protected; in 2011 (two years of ocean migrations later), the first positive … decline in recruitment of young eel from the ocean halted, turning into a slight increase. …
A report by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue estimated that between 587 and 2,615 porpoises were killed in 2017 alone.
… 20774947-1.jpg A report by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue estimated that between 587 and … to suffocate and die. A report by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue estimated that between 587 and …
Emperor Penguins could virtually disappear by the year 2100 due to loss of Antarctic sea ice.
… sea ice home . Each year, the surface of the ocean around Antarctica freezes over in the … and molting, arriving at their colony from ocean waters in March or April after sea ice … everyone leaves the colony and returns to the ocean. Emperor Penguin fathers incubate a …
The state of the world’s nature shows human-driven sixth mass extinction is ongoing.
… freshwater resources. We are also pushing our oceans to the brink. A third of marine fish … ecosystems have produced more than 400 ocean ‘dead zones’, totalling more than … hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land. Loss of biodiversity is …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… is plastic, and much of which ends up in oceans. The complicity of the world’s … governments also has a history. The Norwegian ocean explorer Thor Heyerdahl – who older … raised the alarm about plastics pollution of oceans in the 1970s. The recycling symbol, …
When we melt ice sheets or raise sea-levels the change in pressure and weight on the Earth’s crust can trigger violent responses that very few will see coming.
… change is about the atmosphere, and maybe the oceans as well, but it is all-pervasive. It … that water when you melt ice goes into the oceans. So at the end of the last ice age, all … taken off the ice sheets and dumped into the oceans. That raised sea-levels by 130metres …
The UKYCC is back for its third 'systems change' guest blog, discussing how climate justice intersects with different forms of oppression.
… - of grassland, of concrete, of vast oceans, of uncountable and tiny things, of … a bottom-dragging trawler scrapes up the ocean floor. And far away to the north, the …
… of tonnes of plastic find their way into the ocean every year, creating a garbage patch in … plastics which are currently choking the oceans. However, there still needs to be a …
Food or War traces the nexus between food and conflict through human history, and explores the food driver in recent and existing conflicts.
… same human jawbone fells forests, empties oceans of life, destroys rivers and lakes, … marine aquaculture, especially into deepwater ocean culture and algae farming or …
The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century.
… highs this year. Temperature The world's oceans take in much of the extra heat and … serious impacts for the marine environment. Ocean heat is at record levels, there have …