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Ocean warming and acidification impact on calcareous phytoplankton
2016-07-13 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the University of Cambridge and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom warn of the negative impacts of rapid ocean warming and ocean acidification on coccolithophores, and consequently in the regulatory processes of atmospheric and ocean concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2). Two new studies recently published in Limnology & Oceanography and Biogeosciences...
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Water color, phytoplankton growth in Gulf of Maine are changing
2016-04-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Dr. William "Barney" Balch's team at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been sampling the waters of the Gulf of Maine regularly over the same transect for the last 18 years as part of a NASA-funded study. Working with scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Thomas Huntington and Dr. George Aiken, Balch reported in a recent paper an overall reduction in productivity in the Gulf of Maine. The researchers found that the amount of dissolved organic carbon from rivers emptying into the...
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Ocean currents push phytoplankton, and pollution, around the globe faster than thought
2016-04-19 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in less than a decade, Princeton University researchers have found. Unfortunately, the same principle can apply to plastic debris, radioactive particles and virtually any other human-made flotsam and jetsam that litter our seas, the researchers found. Pollution can thus become a problem far from where it originated within just a few years....
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Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
2015-12-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics, has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could stop oxygen...
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Ocean acidification impact phytoplankton now
2015-07-28 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Scientists are warning that ocean acidification is impacting microorganisms in our ocean known as phytoplankton and, as they pay a key role in ocean habitats, any future loss or change in species numbers could impact marine life in a big way. Ocean acidification isnt always mentioned in conjunction with phytoplankton blooms, and the U.S. Government has been slow to link the two, but MIT researchers say acidification of our oceans could impact phytoplankton in a big way, and that will be bad news...
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