The running title of this column, the blue marble, reads “Traveling the world investigating what global change is doing to aquatic ecosystems ”, but what is global change? I suppose all of us have an intuitive…
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The oceans have absorbed almost 50 % of the CO2 humans released into the atmosphere, which has driven CO2 in the oceans to rise, causing - because of the effect of increasing CO2 in producing carbonic…
In a few hours, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, WWF invites us to join the Earth Hour (www.earthhour.org) and switch off lights on a gesture to remind us that our energy consumption patterns are taking a big toll on…
The Mariana Trench Challenger Deep at 10897 m, the deepest point in the world’s ocean, is featured today around the world media. The reason: the successful descent, and return to the sea surface, of the…
An ancient seagrass that spans up to 15 kilometres and weighs more than 6,000 metric tonnes may be more than 100,000 years old - making it the oldest living organism, Australian researchers have found…
We are seeing the first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic. This is our warning that humanity is facing a dire future. The Arctic region is fast approaching a series of “tipping points” that…
It seems that every day you read in the scientific literature and global media about the human destruction of our oceans, through impacts such as climate change, eutrophication, overfishing and urban sprawling…
Christmas Island has been once again in the headlines: not because of incidents involving asylum-seekers, but because of the recent sinking and breaking up of the Panamanian phosphate carrier MC Tycoon…
A few weeks ago, NASA announced that the area of Arctic ice is now almost as low as it was in 2007, its historic minimum. The extent of ice has reduced to 4.33 million km² compared to the mean (1979 to…
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