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The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

A new study suggests that warming, oxygen-starved seas could lead marine species to vanish at a rate matching the planet’s biggest extinction event on record.

By Bob Berwyn

Tons of dead fish float on the waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, beside the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 13, 2013. Credit: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images
A person observes rain and wind as Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Oct. 9, 2020 in Lake Arthur, Louisiana. Credit: Go Nakamura/Getty Images

Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

By Bob Berwyn

A species of zooplankton called Calanus finmarchicus floats in a sample jar in a laboratory at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Sept. 2, 2015. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Humpback whale seen near Tonga. Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A diver checks the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Major bleaching is occurring on the coral reefs of the islands in French Polynesia. The marine biologist teams from the Centre for Island Research and Environmental Observatory, specialists in coral ecosystems, are working on “resilient corals.” The teams identify, mark and perform genetic analysis of corals that are not impacted by thermal stress. They then produce coral cuttings which are grown in a “coral nursery” and compared to other colonies to study the resilience of the corals. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images).

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A diver looks at reef of a major bleaching on the coral reefs of the Society Islands on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn

Shells on Riccione beach after a storm in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Stories of a Warming Sea, Spotless Dragonflies and Bad News for Shark Week

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Purple urchins consume the remainder of a small giant kelp. In the background, an urchin barren has cleared the majority of nearby kelp and algae leaving an environment less hospitable for many species. Credit: Michael Langhans

In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp. Otters Help Restore Balance.

By Mallory Pickett and Bob Berwyn

Rolling waves in the sea at Woolacombe, North Devon, UK. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Bob Berwyn

Paulet Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 2009. Melting icebergs can disrupt wildlife and, on a massive scale, the climate.

Giant Icebergs Are Headed for South Georgia Island. Scientists Are Scrambling to Catch Up

By Bob Berwyn

A rancher walks on the cracked remains of a parched lake bed on a ranch along San Simeon Creek in the Santa Lucia Mountain foothills of Cambria that are brown from drought on Oct. 1, 2014. Credit: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Droughts That Start Over the Ocean? They’re Often Worse Than Those That Form Over Land

By Bob Berwyn

Increased layering of the ocean prevents the transport of nutrients from the depths to the surface, which disrupts the ocean food chain, including fisheries that help sustain coastal communities. Credit: Bob Berwyn

New Study Shows a Vicious Circle of Climate Change Building on Thickening Layers of Warm Ocean Water

By Bob Berwyn

Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images

Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land

By Bob Berwyn

Scientists help service the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hawaii Ocean Time Series Site (WHOTS) mooring.  Credit: NOAA

Q&A: Oceanographers Tell How the Pandemic Crimps Global Ocean and Climate Monitoring

By Bob Berwyn

Warmer ocean waters are fueling an increasing number of storms.

New Study Shows Global Warming Increasing Frequency of the Most-Destructive Tropical Storms

By Bob Berwyn

Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis

By Bob Berwyn

Sandy beaches, like this one in Sydney, Australia, are vital for protecting coasts from storms. But, a substantial portion of the world’s sandy beaches are already eroding, according to a new study. Credit: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Half the World’s Sandy Beaches May Disappear by Century’s End, Climate Study Says

By Neela Banerjee

Climate Change is Pushing Giant Ocean Currents Poleward

By Bob Berwyn

People pick up plastic waste on a beach. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images

Booming Plastics Industry Faces Backlash as Data About Environmental Harm Grows

By James Bruggers

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