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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
By Anthony Edwards, Aug 23, 2026
"Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of #ElNiño.
The average sea surface temperature of 21.1 degrees Celsius, or 70 degrees Fahrenheit, breaks the old record of 21.09 degrees Celsius set many times in early 2024 during the most recent El Niño.
" 'There is quite a big certainty that sea surface temperatures globally are now higher than even the last warm period before the last ice age,' #LeonSimons, a climate systems analyst and executive director of the #ClubOfRome Netherlands, said during a webinar Sunday.
"Measurements are based on data from satellites, buoys and ships between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude and analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Daily measurements date back to 1979, though July sea surface temperatures were the warmest month globally since at least 1854."
Read more:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php#OceanHeat #ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
By Anthony Edwards, Aug 23, 2026
"Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of #ElNiño.
The average sea surface temperature of 21.1 degrees Celsius, or 70 degrees Fahrenheit, breaks the old record of 21.09 degrees Celsius set many times in early 2024 during the most recent El Niño.
" 'There is quite a big certainty that sea surface temperatures globally are now higher than even the last warm period before the last ice age,' #LeonSimons, a climate systems analyst and executive director of the #ClubOfRome Netherlands, said during a webinar Sunday.
"Measurements are based on data from satellites, buoys and ships between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude and analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Daily measurements date back to 1979, though July sea surface temperatures were the warmest month globally since at least 1854."
Read more:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php#OceanHeat #ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
By Anthony Edwards, Aug 23, 2026
"Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of #ElNiño.
The average sea surface temperature of 21.1 degrees Celsius, or 70 degrees Fahrenheit, breaks the old record of 21.09 degrees Celsius set many times in early 2024 during the most recent El Niño.
" 'There is quite a big certainty that sea surface temperatures globally are now higher than even the last warm period before the last ice age,' #LeonSimons, a climate systems analyst and executive director of the #ClubOfRome Netherlands, said during a webinar Sunday.
"Measurements are based on data from satellites, buoys and ships between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude and analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Daily measurements date back to 1979, though July sea surface temperatures were the warmest month globally since at least 1854."
Read more:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php#OceanHeat #ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
By Anthony Edwards, Aug 23, 2026
"Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of #ElNiño.
The average sea surface temperature of 21.1 degrees Celsius, or 70 degrees Fahrenheit, breaks the old record of 21.09 degrees Celsius set many times in early 2024 during the most recent El Niño.
" 'There is quite a big certainty that sea surface temperatures globally are now higher than even the last warm period before the last ice age,' #LeonSimons, a climate systems analyst and executive director of the #ClubOfRome Netherlands, said during a webinar Sunday.
"Measurements are based on data from satellites, buoys and ships between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude and analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Daily measurements date back to 1979, though July sea surface temperatures were the warmest month globally since at least 1854."
Read more:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php#OceanHeat #ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
By Anthony Edwards, Aug 23, 2026
"Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of #ElNiño.
The average sea surface temperature of 21.1 degrees Celsius, or 70 degrees Fahrenheit, breaks the old record of 21.09 degrees Celsius set many times in early 2024 during the most recent El Niño.
" 'There is quite a big certainty that sea surface temperatures globally are now higher than even the last warm period before the last ice age,' #LeonSimons, a climate systems analyst and executive director of the #ClubOfRome Netherlands, said during a webinar Sunday.
"Measurements are based on data from satellites, buoys and ships between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude and analyzed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Daily measurements date back to 1979, though July sea surface temperatures were the warmest month globally since at least 1854."
Read more:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/ocean-heat-record-el-nino-22400114.php#OceanHeat #ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife
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The #Mediterranean just achieved what experts called “statistically impossible”—here’s how it happened
August 20, 2026
"Water temperatures in the #MediterraneanSea are making even the most seasoned beachgoer do a double take. At the surface, temperatures have broken the 30°C mark (that’s 86°F for those reading in Fahrenheit) along the French coast and down past Spain—numbers more likely to top the charts at peak summer, not early summer. On average, the water hits its warmest point around August 18, typically about 26.1°C (79°F). But this year?
"Average sea surface temperatures for June 2025 have ranged from 3°C to 6°C (about 5 to 11°F) hotter than the norm for the period 1982–2023. These are the kinds of scorchers folks in the region usually brace for well after Bastille Day—if ever."
#ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas
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The #Mediterranean just achieved what experts called “statistically impossible”—here’s how it happened
August 20, 2026
"Water temperatures in the #MediterraneanSea are making even the most seasoned beachgoer do a double take. At the surface, temperatures have broken the 30°C mark (that’s 86°F for those reading in Fahrenheit) along the French coast and down past Spain—numbers more likely to top the charts at peak summer, not early summer. On average, the water hits its warmest point around August 18, typically about 26.1°C (79°F). But this year?
"Average sea surface temperatures for June 2025 have ranged from 3°C to 6°C (about 5 to 11°F) hotter than the norm for the period 1982–2023. These are the kinds of scorchers folks in the region usually brace for well after Bastille Day—if ever."
#ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas
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The #Mediterranean just achieved what experts called “statistically impossible”—here’s how it happened
August 20, 2026
"Water temperatures in the #MediterraneanSea are making even the most seasoned beachgoer do a double take. At the surface, temperatures have broken the 30°C mark (that’s 86°F for those reading in Fahrenheit) along the French coast and down past Spain—numbers more likely to top the charts at peak summer, not early summer. On average, the water hits its warmest point around August 18, typically about 26.1°C (79°F). But this year?
"Average sea surface temperatures for June 2025 have ranged from 3°C to 6°C (about 5 to 11°F) hotter than the norm for the period 1982–2023. These are the kinds of scorchers folks in the region usually brace for well after Bastille Day—if ever."
#ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas
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The #Mediterranean just achieved what experts called “statistically impossible”—here’s how it happened
August 20, 2026
"Water temperatures in the #MediterraneanSea are making even the most seasoned beachgoer do a double take. At the surface, temperatures have broken the 30°C mark (that’s 86°F for those reading in Fahrenheit) along the French coast and down past Spain—numbers more likely to top the charts at peak summer, not early summer. On average, the water hits its warmest point around August 18, typically about 26.1°C (79°F). But this year?
"Average sea surface temperatures for June 2025 have ranged from 3°C to 6°C (about 5 to 11°F) hotter than the norm for the period 1982–2023. These are the kinds of scorchers folks in the region usually brace for well after Bastille Day—if ever."
#ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas
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The #Mediterranean just achieved what experts called “statistically impossible”—here’s how it happened
August 20, 2026
"Water temperatures in the #MediterraneanSea are making even the most seasoned beachgoer do a double take. At the surface, temperatures have broken the 30°C mark (that’s 86°F for those reading in Fahrenheit) along the French coast and down past Spain—numbers more likely to top the charts at peak summer, not early summer. On average, the water hits its warmest point around August 18, typically about 26.1°C (79°F). But this year?
"Average sea surface temperatures for June 2025 have ranged from 3°C to 6°C (about 5 to 11°F) hotter than the norm for the period 1982–2023. These are the kinds of scorchers folks in the region usually brace for well after Bastille Day—if ever."
#ClimateChange #BigOilKnew #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans #WarmingSeas #HumanInducedClimateChange #BigOilAndGas
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#FleshEatingBacteria kill at least 7 along Gulf Coast. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Mark Strassman, Alex Sunby
August 10, 2026Excerpt: "Researchers as far north as #NewYork have detected the bacteria in waters along the coast. In #Maryland, where over two dozen cases have been confirmed so far this year, health officials warned people to be cautious about swimming in #ChesapeakeBay.
" 'With every year now, because of #ClimateChange, we're seeing it higher and higher in more northerly latitudes,' said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-kill-gulf-coast-how-to-protect-yourself/#Vibrio #WarmingOceans #VibrioVulnificus #FleshEating #StayOutOfTheWater
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#FleshEatingBacteria kill at least 7 along Gulf Coast. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Mark Strassman, Alex Sunby
August 10, 2026Excerpt: "Researchers as far north as #NewYork have detected the bacteria in waters along the coast. In #Maryland, where over two dozen cases have been confirmed so far this year, health officials warned people to be cautious about swimming in #ChesapeakeBay.
" 'With every year now, because of #ClimateChange, we're seeing it higher and higher in more northerly latitudes,' said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-kill-gulf-coast-how-to-protect-yourself/#Vibrio #WarmingOceans #VibrioVulnificus #FleshEating #StayOutOfTheWater
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#FleshEatingBacteria kill at least 7 along Gulf Coast. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Mark Strassman, Alex Sunby
August 10, 2026Excerpt: "Researchers as far north as #NewYork have detected the bacteria in waters along the coast. In #Maryland, where over two dozen cases have been confirmed so far this year, health officials warned people to be cautious about swimming in #ChesapeakeBay.
" 'With every year now, because of #ClimateChange, we're seeing it higher and higher in more northerly latitudes,' said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-kill-gulf-coast-how-to-protect-yourself/#Vibrio #WarmingOceans #VibrioVulnificus #FleshEating #StayOutOfTheWater
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#FleshEatingBacteria kill at least 7 along Gulf Coast. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Mark Strassman, Alex Sunby
August 10, 2026Excerpt: "Researchers as far north as #NewYork have detected the bacteria in waters along the coast. In #Maryland, where over two dozen cases have been confirmed so far this year, health officials warned people to be cautious about swimming in #ChesapeakeBay.
" 'With every year now, because of #ClimateChange, we're seeing it higher and higher in more northerly latitudes,' said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-kill-gulf-coast-how-to-protect-yourself/#Vibrio #WarmingOceans #VibrioVulnificus #FleshEating #StayOutOfTheWater
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#FleshEatingBacteria kill at least 7 along Gulf Coast. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Mark Strassman, Alex Sunby
August 10, 2026Excerpt: "Researchers as far north as #NewYork have detected the bacteria in waters along the coast. In #Maryland, where over two dozen cases have been confirmed so far this year, health officials warned people to be cautious about swimming in #ChesapeakeBay.
" 'With every year now, because of #ClimateChange, we're seeing it higher and higher in more northerly latitudes,' said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-kill-gulf-coast-how-to-protect-yourself/#Vibrio #WarmingOceans #VibrioVulnificus #FleshEating #StayOutOfTheWater
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"Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.
They are anything but. Corals are complex creatures that form enduring colonies, and just like other animals they need oxygen to live. Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place, invisible to our eyes and unknown to science before 2014. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate.
Corals aren’t fortunate enough to have a consistent supply of oxygen, and they can’t change location to seek it out. During the day, the tiny polyps that make up a coral colony get plenty of oxygen from the symbiotic algae that photosynthesize within their tissues. But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it. Then it’s do or die for the cilia. Using mechanisms scientists are still trying to understand, the cilia wave around to generate fast-moving vortices of water that circulate oxygen to the coral’s outer tissues, in addition to helping keep the colonies free of sediment.
A study published in Science (opens a new tab) in May 2026 provides new insight into how organisms with no brain or musculoskeletal system can generate and regulate this process — and what happens when the water around them warms up. Warmer water naturally carries less oxygen, which prompts corals to move their cilia faster and faster, as if gasping for breath. Above a certain temperature, the system starts to work against itself; the furious beating of cilia uses up any oxygen the coral’s tissues can absorb, and then the polyps can suffocate in the less oxygenated water. Biophysicists, marine biologists, mathematicians, and modelers are now collaborating to better understand the physiological and hydrodynamic forces at work, and how they correlate with bleaching patterns, coral disease, and mass die-offs."
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"Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.
They are anything but. Corals are complex creatures that form enduring colonies, and just like other animals they need oxygen to live. Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place, invisible to our eyes and unknown to science before 2014. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate.
Corals aren’t fortunate enough to have a consistent supply of oxygen, and they can’t change location to seek it out. During the day, the tiny polyps that make up a coral colony get plenty of oxygen from the symbiotic algae that photosynthesize within their tissues. But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it. Then it’s do or die for the cilia. Using mechanisms scientists are still trying to understand, the cilia wave around to generate fast-moving vortices of water that circulate oxygen to the coral’s outer tissues, in addition to helping keep the colonies free of sediment.
A study published in Science (opens a new tab) in May 2026 provides new insight into how organisms with no brain or musculoskeletal system can generate and regulate this process — and what happens when the water around them warms up. Warmer water naturally carries less oxygen, which prompts corals to move their cilia faster and faster, as if gasping for breath. Above a certain temperature, the system starts to work against itself; the furious beating of cilia uses up any oxygen the coral’s tissues can absorb, and then the polyps can suffocate in the less oxygenated water. Biophysicists, marine biologists, mathematicians, and modelers are now collaborating to better understand the physiological and hydrodynamic forces at work, and how they correlate with bleaching patterns, coral disease, and mass die-offs."
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"Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.
They are anything but. Corals are complex creatures that form enduring colonies, and just like other animals they need oxygen to live. Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place, invisible to our eyes and unknown to science before 2014. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate.
Corals aren’t fortunate enough to have a consistent supply of oxygen, and they can’t change location to seek it out. During the day, the tiny polyps that make up a coral colony get plenty of oxygen from the symbiotic algae that photosynthesize within their tissues. But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it. Then it’s do or die for the cilia. Using mechanisms scientists are still trying to understand, the cilia wave around to generate fast-moving vortices of water that circulate oxygen to the coral’s outer tissues, in addition to helping keep the colonies free of sediment.
A study published in Science (opens a new tab) in May 2026 provides new insight into how organisms with no brain or musculoskeletal system can generate and regulate this process — and what happens when the water around them warms up. Warmer water naturally carries less oxygen, which prompts corals to move their cilia faster and faster, as if gasping for breath. Above a certain temperature, the system starts to work against itself; the furious beating of cilia uses up any oxygen the coral’s tissues can absorb, and then the polyps can suffocate in the less oxygenated water. Biophysicists, marine biologists, mathematicians, and modelers are now collaborating to better understand the physiological and hydrodynamic forces at work, and how they correlate with bleaching patterns, coral disease, and mass die-offs."
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"Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.
They are anything but. Corals are complex creatures that form enduring colonies, and just like other animals they need oxygen to live. Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place, invisible to our eyes and unknown to science before 2014. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate.
Corals aren’t fortunate enough to have a consistent supply of oxygen, and they can’t change location to seek it out. During the day, the tiny polyps that make up a coral colony get plenty of oxygen from the symbiotic algae that photosynthesize within their tissues. But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it. Then it’s do or die for the cilia. Using mechanisms scientists are still trying to understand, the cilia wave around to generate fast-moving vortices of water that circulate oxygen to the coral’s outer tissues, in addition to helping keep the colonies free of sediment.
A study published in Science (opens a new tab) in May 2026 provides new insight into how organisms with no brain or musculoskeletal system can generate and regulate this process — and what happens when the water around them warms up. Warmer water naturally carries less oxygen, which prompts corals to move their cilia faster and faster, as if gasping for breath. Above a certain temperature, the system starts to work against itself; the furious beating of cilia uses up any oxygen the coral’s tissues can absorb, and then the polyps can suffocate in the less oxygenated water. Biophysicists, marine biologists, mathematicians, and modelers are now collaborating to better understand the physiological and hydrodynamic forces at work, and how they correlate with bleaching patterns, coral disease, and mass die-offs."
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Gulf of Mexico’s rapid warming threatens Louisiana’s coast | Environment
Batting away snakes, Wilkie Declouet trudged through chest-deep water to reach his front door. Hurricane Ida had flooded…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #fej #GulfofMexico #hardwall #hurricaneida #Louisiana #Science #warmingoceans
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Gulf of Mexico’s rapid warming threatens Louisiana’s coast | Environment
Batting away snakes, Wilkie Declouet trudged through chest-deep water to reach his front door. Hurricane Ida had flooded…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #fej #GulfofMexico #hardwall #hurricaneida #Louisiana #Science #warmingoceans
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Gulf of Mexico’s rapid warming threatens Louisiana’s coast | Environment
Batting away snakes, Wilkie Declouet trudged through chest-deep water to reach his front door. Hurricane Ida had flooded…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #fej #GulfofMexico #hardwall #hurricaneida #Louisiana #Science #warmingoceans
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So, it's hotter on the coast than it is inland. That happened last year as well. No sea breeze! Very troubling...
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So, it's hotter on the coast than it is inland. That happened last year as well. No sea breeze! Very troubling...
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So, it's hotter on the coast than it is inland. That happened last year as well. No sea breeze! Very troubling...
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So, it's hotter on the coast than it is inland. That happened last year as well. No sea breeze! Very troubling...
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So, it's hotter on the coast than it is inland. That happened last year as well. No sea breeze! Very troubling...
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If anyone still takes #KrillOilSupplements, please stop! Our friends who live in the ocean need it way more than humans do!
Who's killing Antarctica's ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting no one's talking about
by Robbie Lockie
March 5, 2025Excerpt: "Saving Antarctic #krill—and, by extension, Antarctica itself—requires a multi-pronged approach:
- Stronger Quotas: CCAMLR must impose much stricter limits on krill fishing or ban it outright in certain areas.
- Marine Protected Areas: Expanding no-fishing zones in the Southern Ocean is critical to safeguarding krill and the species that depend on them.
- Consumer Action: Shoppers can pressure brands and retailers to stop selling krill-based products. Boycotting krill supplements and pet food sends a clear message to the industry.
- Global Cooperation: Governments and NGOs must work together to address the root causes of krill decline, including #ClimateChange and overfishing. [and #WarmingOceans ]."https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/whos-killing-antarcticas-ecosystem-dark-side-krill-harvesting
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If anyone still takes #KrillOilSupplements, please stop! Our friends who live in the ocean need it way more than humans do!
Who's killing Antarctica's ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting no one's talking about
by Robbie Lockie
March 5, 2025Excerpt: "Saving Antarctic #krill—and, by extension, Antarctica itself—requires a multi-pronged approach:
- Stronger Quotas: CCAMLR must impose much stricter limits on krill fishing or ban it outright in certain areas.
- Marine Protected Areas: Expanding no-fishing zones in the Southern Ocean is critical to safeguarding krill and the species that depend on them.
- Consumer Action: Shoppers can pressure brands and retailers to stop selling krill-based products. Boycotting krill supplements and pet food sends a clear message to the industry.
- Global Cooperation: Governments and NGOs must work together to address the root causes of krill decline, including #ClimateChange and overfishing. [and #WarmingOceans ]."https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/whos-killing-antarcticas-ecosystem-dark-side-krill-harvesting
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If anyone still takes #KrillOilSupplements, please stop! Our friends who live in the ocean need it way more than humans do!
Who's killing Antarctica's ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting no one's talking about
by Robbie Lockie
March 5, 2025Excerpt: "Saving Antarctic #krill—and, by extension, Antarctica itself—requires a multi-pronged approach:
- Stronger Quotas: CCAMLR must impose much stricter limits on krill fishing or ban it outright in certain areas.
- Marine Protected Areas: Expanding no-fishing zones in the Southern Ocean is critical to safeguarding krill and the species that depend on them.
- Consumer Action: Shoppers can pressure brands and retailers to stop selling krill-based products. Boycotting krill supplements and pet food sends a clear message to the industry.
- Global Cooperation: Governments and NGOs must work together to address the root causes of krill decline, including #ClimateChange and overfishing. [and #WarmingOceans ]."https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/whos-killing-antarcticas-ecosystem-dark-side-krill-harvesting
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If anyone still takes #KrillOilSupplements, please stop! Our friends who live in the ocean need it way more than humans do!
Who's killing Antarctica's ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting no one's talking about
by Robbie Lockie
March 5, 2025Excerpt: "Saving Antarctic #krill—and, by extension, Antarctica itself—requires a multi-pronged approach:
- Stronger Quotas: CCAMLR must impose much stricter limits on krill fishing or ban it outright in certain areas.
- Marine Protected Areas: Expanding no-fishing zones in the Southern Ocean is critical to safeguarding krill and the species that depend on them.
- Consumer Action: Shoppers can pressure brands and retailers to stop selling krill-based products. Boycotting krill supplements and pet food sends a clear message to the industry.
- Global Cooperation: Governments and NGOs must work together to address the root causes of krill decline, including #ClimateChange and overfishing. [and #WarmingOceans ]."https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/whos-killing-antarcticas-ecosystem-dark-side-krill-harvesting
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If anyone still takes #KrillOilSupplements, please stop! Our friends who live in the ocean need it way more than humans do!
Who's killing Antarctica's ecosystem? The dark side of krill harvesting no one's talking about
by Robbie Lockie
March 5, 2025Excerpt: "Saving Antarctic #krill—and, by extension, Antarctica itself—requires a multi-pronged approach:
- Stronger Quotas: CCAMLR must impose much stricter limits on krill fishing or ban it outright in certain areas.
- Marine Protected Areas: Expanding no-fishing zones in the Southern Ocean is critical to safeguarding krill and the species that depend on them.
- Consumer Action: Shoppers can pressure brands and retailers to stop selling krill-based products. Boycotting krill supplements and pet food sends a clear message to the industry.
- Global Cooperation: Governments and NGOs must work together to address the root causes of krill decline, including #ClimateChange and overfishing. [and #WarmingOceans ]."https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/whos-killing-antarcticas-ecosystem-dark-side-krill-harvesting
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Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters 'uncharted territory,' scientists warn
by Chantal Da Silva
July 1, 2026"Temperatures on the #ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global #ClimateCrisis.
"Two separate services under the European Union’s #CopernicusEarth observation program — the Copernicus #ClimateChange Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
"Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the 'beginning of a new phase.'
" 'With OceanTemperatures at these levels and #ElNiño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,' Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
"The world could be heading into 'uncharted territory,' Buontempo warned.
"According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.
" 'It’s consistent with what we’ve known for a long time — that the planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of #GreenhouseGasses, primarily from #FossilFuel burning, into the atmosphere and that’s stifling the ability of the planet to lose its heat to space,' Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a phone interview."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vKHY2#BigOilAndGas #MarineHeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves #Heatwave
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Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters 'uncharted territory,' scientists warn
by Chantal Da Silva
July 1, 2026"Temperatures on the #ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global #ClimateCrisis.
"Two separate services under the European Union’s #CopernicusEarth observation program — the Copernicus #ClimateChange Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
"Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the 'beginning of a new phase.'
" 'With OceanTemperatures at these levels and #ElNiño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,' Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
"The world could be heading into 'uncharted territory,' Buontempo warned.
"According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.
" 'It’s consistent with what we’ve known for a long time — that the planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of #GreenhouseGasses, primarily from #FossilFuel burning, into the atmosphere and that’s stifling the ability of the planet to lose its heat to space,' Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a phone interview."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vKHY2#BigOilAndGas #MarineHeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves #Heatwave
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Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters 'uncharted territory,' scientists warn
by Chantal Da Silva
July 1, 2026"Temperatures on the #ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global #ClimateCrisis.
"Two separate services under the European Union’s #CopernicusEarth observation program — the Copernicus #ClimateChange Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
"Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the 'beginning of a new phase.'
" 'With OceanTemperatures at these levels and #ElNiño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,' Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
"The world could be heading into 'uncharted territory,' Buontempo warned.
"According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.
" 'It’s consistent with what we’ve known for a long time — that the planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of #GreenhouseGasses, primarily from #FossilFuel burning, into the atmosphere and that’s stifling the ability of the planet to lose its heat to space,' Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a phone interview."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vKHY2#BigOilAndGas #MarineHeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves #Heatwave
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Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters 'uncharted territory,' scientists warn
by Chantal Da Silva
July 1, 2026"Temperatures on the #ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global #ClimateCrisis.
"Two separate services under the European Union’s #CopernicusEarth observation program — the Copernicus #ClimateChange Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
"Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the 'beginning of a new phase.'
" 'With OceanTemperatures at these levels and #ElNiño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,' Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
"The world could be heading into 'uncharted territory,' Buontempo warned.
"According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.
" 'It’s consistent with what we’ve known for a long time — that the planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of #GreenhouseGasses, primarily from #FossilFuel burning, into the atmosphere and that’s stifling the ability of the planet to lose its heat to space,' Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a phone interview."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vKHY2#BigOilAndGas #MarineHeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves #Heatwave
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Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters 'uncharted territory,' scientists warn
by Chantal Da Silva
July 1, 2026"Temperatures on the #ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global #ClimateCrisis.
"Two separate services under the European Union’s #CopernicusEarth observation program — the Copernicus #ClimateChange Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
"Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the 'beginning of a new phase.'
" 'With OceanTemperatures at these levels and #ElNiño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,' Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
"The world could be heading into 'uncharted territory,' Buontempo warned.
"According to Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius, or 69.54 degrees Fahrenheit, that day, climbing above the 20.83 degrees Celsius, or 69.49 degrees Fahrenheit observed in 2023 and 2024.
"The Copernicus Marine Service meanwhile recorded temperatures at 21 degrees Celsius, or 69.8 Fahrenheit, beating previous records from 2023 and 2024 by 0.1 degree Celsius.
" 'It’s consistent with what we’ve known for a long time — that the planet is warming because we’re emitting vast quantities of #GreenhouseGasses, primarily from #FossilFuel burning, into the atmosphere and that’s stifling the ability of the planet to lose its heat to space,' Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the U.K., said in a phone interview."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vKHY2#BigOilAndGas #MarineHeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElNino #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves #Heatwave
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😢 A #MarineHeatWave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
‘We don’t know how bad this is going to get’
By JULIE WATSON
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, July 1, 2026SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Within minutes of walking on a #SanDiego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks."Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead #seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine HeatWave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.
"The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.
"Many seabirds, including California #BrownPelicans, #loons and #grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where #krill, #anchovies and #sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"We’ve been seeing #cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. 'That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.'
"Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jsx3D#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PacificOcean #ElNino #WarmingOceans #OceanDieOff #Seabirds
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😢 A #MarineHeatWave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
‘We don’t know how bad this is going to get’
By JULIE WATSON
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, July 1, 2026SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Within minutes of walking on a #SanDiego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks."Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead #seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine HeatWave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.
"The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.
"Many seabirds, including California #BrownPelicans, #loons and #grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where #krill, #anchovies and #sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"We’ve been seeing #cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. 'That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.'
"Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jsx3D#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PacificOcean #ElNino #WarmingOceans #OceanDieOff #Seabirds
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😢 A #MarineHeatWave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
‘We don’t know how bad this is going to get’
By JULIE WATSON
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, July 1, 2026SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Within minutes of walking on a #SanDiego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks."Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead #seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine HeatWave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.
"The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.
"Many seabirds, including California #BrownPelicans, #loons and #grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where #krill, #anchovies and #sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"We’ve been seeing #cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. 'That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.'
"Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jsx3D#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PacificOcean #ElNino #WarmingOceans #OceanDieOff #Seabirds
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😢 A #MarineHeatWave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
‘We don’t know how bad this is going to get’
By JULIE WATSON
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, July 1, 2026SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Within minutes of walking on a #SanDiego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks."Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead #seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine HeatWave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.
"The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.
"Many seabirds, including California #BrownPelicans, #loons and #grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where #krill, #anchovies and #sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"We’ve been seeing #cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. 'That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.'
"Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jsx3D#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PacificOcean #ElNino #WarmingOceans #OceanDieOff #Seabirds
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😢 A #MarineHeatWave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
‘We don’t know how bad this is going to get’
By JULIE WATSON
Updated 1:25 PM EDT, July 1, 2026SAN DIEGO (AP) — "Within minutes of walking on a #SanDiego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.
Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks."Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead #seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine HeatWave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.
"The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.
"Many seabirds, including California #BrownPelicans, #loons and #grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where #krill, #anchovies and #sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"We’ve been seeing #cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. 'That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.'
"Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jsx3D#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PacificOcean #ElNino #WarmingOceans #OceanDieOff #Seabirds
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From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
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From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
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From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
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From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
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From #Arctic heat to #megafires, #WMO report shows climate change completely reshaping #Europe
By Andrei Ionescu, 6/2/2026
"In the far north, climate change is not some distant warning anymore. It is already reshaping the landscape.
"Across Alaska and Canada, Arctic and boreal regions are warming up to four times faster than the global average.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on #ecosystems that have long helped slow climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in #trees, #shrubs, and #soil.
When forests stop helping"The trouble is, those ecosystems do not always stay helpful under stress.
"As wildfires grow more intense, drought becomes more common, and other disturbances spread, parts of the north may start giving #carbon back to the atmosphere instead of locking it away.
"Once that happens, the whole climate system becomes harder to stabilize.
"That is why scientists care so much about #biomass, the total amount of living plant material across these landscapes."
Read more:
https://www.earth.com/news/arctic-forests-could-be-hiding-a-major-climate-surprise/#BorealForests #ArcticForests #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #Heatwaves
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#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain
Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026
"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.
"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.
"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.
"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.
" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'
"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.
" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.
"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.
" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'
"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.
"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.
"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.
" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."
Archived version:
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#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain
Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026
"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.
"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.
"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.
"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.
" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'
"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.
" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.
"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.
" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'
"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.
"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.
"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.
" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife
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#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain
Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026
"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.
"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.
"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.
"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.
" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'
"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.
" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.
"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.
" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'
"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.
"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.
"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.
" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife
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#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain
Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026
"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.
"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.
"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.
"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.
" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'
"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.
" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.
"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.
" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'
"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.
"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.
"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.
" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife
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#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain
Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026
"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.
"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.
"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.
"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.
" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'
"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.
" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.
"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.
" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'
"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.
"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.
"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.
" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife
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So, a recurring dream that I had some years ago had involved rotting vegetation underfoot and the smell of hydrogen sulfide. Ummm...
"The hydrogen sulfide gas it releases when it rots is not only stinky but can irritate people's eyes, nose and throat, Florida Health says. The seaweed can also contain jellyfish or sea lice that can irritate skin."
#Sargassum #SargassumSeaweed #WarmingOceans #HydrogenSulfide
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So, a recurring dream that I had some years ago had involved rotting vegetation underfoot and the smell of hydrogen sulfide. Ummm...
"The hydrogen sulfide gas it releases when it rots is not only stinky but can irritate people's eyes, nose and throat, Florida Health says. The seaweed can also contain jellyfish or sea lice that can irritate skin."
#Sargassum #SargassumSeaweed #WarmingOceans #HydrogenSulfide