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Pacific islands look for model to combat changes due to global warming
Guardian Unlimited | 07 May 2013
With islands and atolls scattered across the ocean, the small Pacific island states are among those most exposed to the effects of global warming: increasing acidity and rising sea level, more frequent natural disasters and damage to coral reefs.

Why is Reuters puzzled by global warming's acceleration?
Guardian Unlimited | 24 Apr 2013
'Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown,' said Reuters. But warming is speeding up, and scientists can explain it. There are periods when the ocean heats up more quickly than the surface, and other periods when the surface heats up more quickly than the oceans.

Climate Change | Global Warming

Study reveals seasonal patterns of tropical rainfall changes from global warming
EurekAlert | 16 Apr 2013
Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the tropics, according to the study of a group of Chinese and Hawaii scientists that is published in the April 14, 2013, online issue of Nature Geoscience.

Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Surface Temperature

Submerged banks in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, greatly increase available coral reef habitat
Oxford Journals | 20 Feb 2013
Harris, P. T., Bridge, T. C. L., Beaman, R. J., Webster, J. M., Nichol, S. L., and Brooke, B. P. 2013. Submerged banks in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, greatly increase available coral reef habitat. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 284–293.

Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Coral | Global Warming

Deep ice cores show past Greenland warm period may be 'road map' for continued warming of planet
EurekAlert | 23 Jan 2013
(University of Colorado at Boulder) A new study by an international team of scientists analyzing ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet going back in time more than 100,000 years indicates the last interglacial period may be a good analog for where the planet is headed in terms of increasing greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

Global Warming | Research | Sea Level Rise

Antarctic key to tackling climate issues
New Zealand Herald | 18 Jan 2013
Antarctica is "ground zero" for global warming, climate scientists say, and New Zealand will be the first to feel the effect of its melting ice. As the world warms, researchers' eyes are turning to the frozen continent, where trillions...

Pacific Ocean | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise

Geo-engineering against climate change
EurekAlert | 19 Dec 2012
(Inderscience Publishers) Plans for seeding the oceans with iron fail to take into account several factors that could scupper those plans, according to Daniel Harrison of the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, NSW, Australia, writing in the International Journal of Global Warming.

Climate Change | Global Warming | Research

More ice loss through snowfall on Antarctica
EurekAlert | 12 Dec 2012
(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) Stronger snowfall increases future ice discharge from Antarctica. Global warming leads to more precipitation as warmer air holds more moisture -- hence earlier research suggested the Antarctic ice sheet might grow under climate change. Now a study published in Nature shows that a lot of the ice gain due to increased snowfall is countered by an acceleration of ice-flow to the ocean.

Southern Ocean | Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise

New dating of sea-level records reveals rapid response between ice volume and polar temperature
EurekAlert | 14 Nov 2012
(University of Southampton) A new study has revealed a rapid response between global temperature and ice volume/sea-level, which could lead to sea-levels rising by over one meter.

Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise

Warming temperatures will change Greenland's face
EurekAlert | 13 Nov 2012
(City College of New York) Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and a colleague have made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.

Atlantic Ocean | Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise

Small marine organisms' big changes could affect world climate
EurekAlert | 26 Oct 2012
(National Science Foundation) In the future, warmer waters could significantly change ocean distribution of populations of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that could have a major effect on climate change.

Climate Change | Global Warming | Plankton

192: Who's Thinking Ahead About Climate? (radio)
worldoceanobservatory.org | 12 Oct 2012
The political debate about climate in the United States has resulted in a stalemate. Save for the voices of a determined few, a silence has enveloped the issue, effectively shutting the conversation down. In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will ask the question, "Is anyone out there thinking ahead about climate?"

Climate Change | Global Warming

Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic ice
New Zealand Herald | 11 Oct 2012
The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.

Southern Ocean | Global Warming | Polar Region | Sea Ice

Study shows small fish can play a big role in coastal carbon cycle
EurekAlert | 11 Oct 2012
(Virginia Institute of Marine Science) Research shows that small forage fish like anchovies can transport carbon into the deep sea through their fecal pellets -- where it contributes nothing to current global warming.

Climate Change | Fish | Global Warming

Warmer oceans could mean smaller fish
World Fishing | 03 Oct 2012
A new study led by fisheries scientists at the University of British Columbia has found that changes in ocean and climate systems could lead to smaller fish.

Climate Change | Fish | Global Warming

Global warming will make fish smaller - research
New Zealand Herald | 01 Oct 2012
A hearty fillet of fish, already a rare treat because of over-trawled oceans, will become even more infrequent in the future when global warming starts to reduce fish size, scientists say.

Climate Change | Fish | Global Warming

Climate change 'may shrink fish'
BBC | 30 Sep 2012
Fish species are expected to shrink in size by up to 24% because of global warming, say scientists.

Climate Change | Fish | Global Warming

Fish to shrink by up to a quarter due to climate change, study reveals
Guardian Unlimited | 30 Sep 2012
Global warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades, according to a groundbreaking new study of the world's oceans. The reduction in individual fish size will be matched by a dwindling of overall fish stocks, warned scientists, at a time when the world's growing human population is putting ever greater pressure on fisheries.

Climate Change | Fish | Global Warming

Sea Otters May Be Global Warming Warriors
news.discovery.com | 18 Sep 2012
Sea otters might be on the frontlines of the fight against global warming, according to a new study showing the fur-coated swimmers keep sea urchin populations in check, which in turn allows carbon dioxide-sucking kelp forests to prosper.

Pacific Ocean | Blue Carbon | Global Warming

Surge in number of men o'war being washed up on beaches
Telegraph | 08 Sep 2012
Beachgoers and surfers warned of surge in number of deadly Portuguese men o'war off the coast of British beaches.

Atlantic Ocean | Global Warming | Invasive Species

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