A team of meteorologists, Earth scientists and oceanographers at Sorbonne Université, working with one colleague from ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails and cold-water corals. The ocean is the largest natural ...

“We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures ... atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop. Whatever the ...

The legal systems for ocean governance and climate change governance are based ... This could be achieved by incorporating regular review processes and feedback loops that enable continuous ...

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide ... coastal permafrost erosion could exert a positive feedback loop that increases atmospheric CO2 by 1.1 million to 2.2 ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now explored how large-scale ocean anoxia developed ... “This self-amplifying loop led to a rapid and prolonged marine anoxia. The study warns that ...

NIWA oceanographer Dr Cliff Law explains the impacts of ocean acidification on organisms that use carbonates ... creating a positive feedback loop, whereas organisms that use carbonate may find it ...

Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times climate and environment team, filling in for my colleague Sammy Roth. As the burning of fossil fuels and ...

In July, global ocean surface temperatures were again the ... It's what scientists refer to as a "positive feedback loop." This graph displays the area of the minimum sea ice coverage each year ...

Phytoplankton are also the lungs of the ocean, producing about half the world ... that in turn could drive up temperatures further — a positive feedback loop that could lead to runaway change ...