The Effect of Coral Bleaching Events in the Great Barrier Reef
WEBMay 31, 2019 · The heat stress made corals eject the symbiotic algae that live alongside the hard coral skeleton. When the algae leave, the remaining coral becomes a stark white color in a process known as ...
The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
WEBFeb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
WEBSep 13, 2017 · Plankton that are plants, known as phytoplankton, grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen. As such, climate ...
Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Eos
WEBNov 22, 2019 · Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate. The ...
Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
WEBJul 15, 2021 · Eyewitness accounts describe hovering balls of light typically about 20 centimeters in diameter, roughly the size of a bowling ball. The balls appear white, yellow, orange, blue, or (rarely) green ...
The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
WEBApr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
WEBMay 17, 2021 · A Gold Standard for Reading Cretaceous Climate. The Cretaceous period is an archetypal example of a greenhouse climate. Atmospheric pCO 2 levels reached as high as about 2,000 ppmv, average ...
Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search
WEBMar 6, 2017 · Credit: Kim Picard and Jonah Sullivan. The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on 8 March 2014 led to a deep-ocean search effort of unprecedented scale and detail. Between June ...
Swipe Left on the “Big One”: Better Dates for Cascadia Quakes
WEBAug 20, 2021 · Paleoseismology Proxies. Cascadia has one of the longest and most spatially complete geologic records of subduction zone earthquakes, stretching back more than 10,000 years along much of the 1,300 ...
Characterizing Interglacial Periods over the Past 800,000 Years
WEBMar 2, 2016 · Researchers identified 11 different interglacial periods, during which glaciers retreat and sea levels rise, over the past 800,000 years. Credit: Matito, CC BY-SA 2.0
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