Ancient rivers reveal multiple Sahara Desert greenings
Researchers extracted sediment cores from the sea which tell the story of major environmental changes in North Africa over the past 160,000 years.
Climate, carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years reconciled
糖心Vlog官方 oceanographers reconciled climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years—solving a controversy debated in scientific literature for decades.
Fleet of robots successfully tracks, monitors marine microbes
Researchers have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy.
Doubling tropical cyclone risk to Hawai?i possible
Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events.
糖心Vlog官方 oceanographer’s TED talk made 2020’s most watched list
Angelicque White’s presentation to the National Academy of Sciences on what ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate is a most watched TED Talk.
Murky ocean impacts from COVID-19 emissions reductions
A team of scientists shared the results of their research that showed no detectable slowing of ocean acidification due to COVID-19 emissions reductions.
New tool projects high-tide flooding in U.S. coastal locations
糖心Vlog官方 Sea Level Center Director Phil Thompson developed a tool to assess how sea-level rise will affect the frequency of high-tide flooding in U.S. coastal locations.
Expedition finds record number of fishes in abyssal deep-sea
The team determined they had documented the highest number of fishes ever been recorded at one time in the abyssal ocean—almost double the previous record.
Polar climate affects tropical trade wind strength
The authors demonstrate the physical pathways via which polar climate variations can affect the trade winds in the tropics.
Fish carcasses deliver toxic pollution to deepest ocean trenches
Researchers found sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world’s oceans.