Scientists harness AI to discover a rise in floating algae across the global ocean
Blooms of macroalgae such as sargassum seaweed rose by 13.4% per year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific.
Tag: Global warming
Florida Atlantic scientist says hotter beach temperatures produce fewer male sea turtles
Rising global temperatures have serious repercussions for the survival of endangered turtle species.
A melting Greenland is easier to exploit — but also more perilous
Climate change is opening up previously inaccessible land and sea, boosting global interest in Greenland.
Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change
Ignoring the blue economy has left a blind spot in climate finance, according to a study from Scripps Oceanography.
Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy
As Arctic sea ice cover diminishes, shipping routes that were impassable most of the year are opening up.
US saw 23 billion-dollar disasters in 2025, third highest on record
They include the Los Angeles fires, which were the costliest disaster of the year and the costliest wildfire in US ...
Three things that might trigger massive ice sheet collapse
If one or more of these instabilities are triggered, sea levels would rise much faster than currently expected.
She speaks for the trees. We should all be listening
Author Diana Beresford-Kroeger has spent her life protecting and advocating for the global forest.
Earth’s growing heat imbalance driven more by clouds than air pollution, study finds
Airborne particles can affect how clouds form and how much sunlight Earth reflects back to space.
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
Ocean measurements beneath ice shelves help determine how Antarctica will contribute to sea-level rise.