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Summit Supercomputer Study Fathoms Troubled Waters Of Ocean Turbulence

June 17, 2023 admin oak ridge national laboratory (ornl), oceans, research, SCIENCE, Water

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:15:32 +0000

Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new possibilities for projecting climate change and studying fluid dynamics. The study, published in the Journal of Turbulence, used Summit to model the dynamics of a […]

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Why You Should Care About Warmer-Than-Average Ocean Temperatures

May 26, 2023 admin carbon emissions, climate change, Fossil Fuels, ocean temperatures, oceans, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 18:35:22 +0000

Higher sea surface temperatures disrupt the mixing of nutrients and oxygen that is key to supporting life. They have the potential to alter the ocean’s crucial role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere.

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Rising Ocean Temperatures Are A Threat To Human Survival

May 19, 2023 admin climate change, lawrence livermore national laboratory, oceans, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 17:25:10 +0000

Scientists tend to focus on the levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere as the causes of global heating. Yet most of the excess heat added to the environment since the start of the Industrial Revolution has been absorbed by the ocean, which covers 70% of the planet. The ocean is like the […]

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UCLA Says We Can Hack The Ocean To Store Carbon Dioxide

May 18, 2023 admin carbon capture (ccs), carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, green economy, hydrogen, oceans, research, SCIENCE, ucla

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 14:44:54 +0000

Researchers at UCLA have devised a novel way of removing carbon dioxide from the world’s oceans simply and affordably.

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Florida And The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt’s Unprecedented Bloom

May 14, 2023 admin Agriculture, global weirding, oceans, research, SCIENCE, seaweed, Water

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 16:30:05 +0000

Native Floridians have struggled adapting to life as the timeless quality and charm of old Florida are being lost as a result of overdevelopment. That same overdevelopment contributes to the factors that support red tide’s continual growth. Many of us suffer from climate change grief — in particular, the loss of something in nature in […]

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How Clear Messaging Can Help Everyone Understand The Importance Of Marine Heatwaves

April 15, 2023 admin carbon emissions, climate change, national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa), oceans, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:15:27 +0000

The way we talk about the nature of ocean temperature change over short and long timescales is crucial. What language choices can clarify marine heatwave distinctions in order to help communities and ecosystems?

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Hiding Behind Whale Fatality Disinformation, Big Oil Works To Slow Offshore Wind Projects

April 10, 2023 admin clean power, NOAA, oceans, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, renewable energy, usa, Whales, wind energy

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:05:34 +0000

Tech is helping to assuage controversies with innovations like floating LiDAR buoys, which can provide data and insights to those pursuing wind development opportunities, and telemetry tracking buoys to monitor information about the whales themselves.

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Supply Chains & Social Changes Are Externalities That Are Affecting Acquisitions Of Critical Minerals

April 9, 2023 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, Mining, oceans, renewable energy, SCIENCE, supply chains

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:06:33 +0000

Telecoupling considers primary, secondary, or even tertiary supply chain externalities of critical minerals resource use. It also highlights the channels through which institutional, economic, or social changes trigger transformations.

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Melt Water In Antarctica Could Stall Major Ocean Currents

April 7, 2023 admin antarctica, climate change, oceans, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:25:03 +0000

The latest ocean research suggests melt water from Antarctica is slowing the deep ocean currents that directly impact the Earth’s climat

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Historic UN Ocean Treaty Agreed — Greenpeace Statement

March 8, 2023 admin climate change, greenpeace, oceans, policy & politics, research, united nations (un), Water

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:35:27 +0000

A historic UN Ocean Treaty has finally been agreed at the United Nations after almost two decades of negotiations. The text will now go through technical editing and translation, before officially being adopted at another session. This Treaty is a monumental win for ocean protection, and an important sign that multilateralism still works in an […]

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