Small but mighty, plankton are some of the most powerful creatures on Earth.
For @TheConversationUS, a marine conservationist writes: "Plankton are critical to marine ecosystems and to humans, but often glide under the radar of our interest."
@ZLabe far out 😳
"Antarctica is losing ice mass (melting) at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year, and Greenland is losing about 270 billion tons per year, adding to sea level rise.
This is important because the ice sheets of #Greenland and #Antarctica store about two-thirds of all the fresh water on Earth. They are losing ice due to the ongoing warming of Earth’s surface and #ocean. Meltwater coming from these ice sheets is responsible for about one-third of the global average #seaLevelRise since 1993."
#Books | Plongez dans les mystères de l'#Océan avec ce #livre magnifiquement illustré : son fonctionnement, son rôle dans la régulation du #climat, mais aussi l’histoire de son #exploration et les #espèces incroyables qu’il abrite. Accessible à tous!
Local elections in the UK - don’t forget to vote! It matters so much that we all use our voice, and that we aren’t complacent about our ability to do so.
The Blue Machine UK paperback is published today. It’s got another beautiful cover 🎉 #ocean#books#election2024
#Books | 🌊Plongez dans les mystères de l' #Océan avec ce #livre magnifiquement illustré : son fonctionnement, son rôle dans la régulation du #climat , mais aussi l’histoire de son #exploration et les #espèces incroyables qu’il abrite. Accessible à tous!
Blue Machine paperback incoming! UK publication is this Thursday, May 2nd. The hardback is such a very beautiful object, with the Spilhaus projection of the ocean in blue and gold, and it will still be available. But now there's one with a wave on front too.
If you don't yet know why the ocean matters, and why it's SO much more than a blue filler with fish in, this is for you.
'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic' -Tristan Gooley
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. CNN explores one place where a lot of it ends up: the Western coast of Java in Indonesia.
Lampreys look like something out of a horror movie, with their sucky mouths chock full of teeth, eel-like bodies and parasitic behaviors. And, it appears the water creatures off clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct. More from Popular Science. https://flip.it/E1UeWQ #Science#MarineBiology#Ocean#Animals
People are starting to talk about deep sea mining. There are minerals down there - cobalt, manganese, nickel & more - potentially useful for creating a cleaner, greener electrified world. But taking them would cause huge damage to one of Earth's last great wildernesses. So what do we know about this trade-off? What lives down there? And should we cross this line? For Fully Charged, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to investigate:
Scientists from around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed by mass coral bleaching events caused by record-breaking ocean water temperatures. Water found to be as warm as a hot tub off the coast of Florida last year has moved to the southern hemisphere, infecting the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as coral in coastlines in Brazil, Tanzania and the Red Sea. The BBC has more on the threat to marine life.
Deep-sea expedition captures stunning images of creatures in Pacific mining zone.
CNN has images of "fantastic creatures discovered 1,640 miles (5,000 meters) beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean in a pristine area that’s earmarked as a site for deep-sea mining of critical and rare metals."
Rare Earth will be recording an episode in front of a live audience for the first time, and I'll also be talking with Helen Scales about the ocean and my book Blue Machine.
Spoiler: we show that the increase in #CoastalOcean#CO2uptake during the 20th century was primarily driven by biological responses to climate-induced circulation changes (36%) and increasing riverine nutrient loads (23%), together exceeding the ocean CO2 solubility pump (41%). @hereon #ilyinaScience
Free for all to read at my Patreon... I review an extraordinary new book that expands our knowledge of - and empathy with - the oceans and their inhabitants:
"Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive 'giant whirlpools,' according to new research."
CNN reports on the research from Nature Communications journal: "The two planets affect each other through a phenomenon called 'resonance,' which is when two orbiting bodies apply a gravitational push and pull on each other — sometimes described as a kind of harmonization between distant planets."
Less ice in the Arctic ocean has complex effects on marine ecosystems and ocean #productivity.
Many questions arise when such large areas become ice-free and can receive sunlight.
A prevailing paradigm suggests that the #Arctic#ocean is rapidly becoming more productive as sunlight becomes more abundant in the marine #environment.
I is unclear how #ecosystems will evolve in response to increasing sunlight availability and how different components will be affected.
Unprecedented Daily Ocean Heat Records Set for an Entire Year: Global Warming’s Marine Impact ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
For the past year, the world’s oceans have been charting new territory in warmth, setting daily temperature records since mid-March of the previous ye
Unprecedented Daily Ocean Heat Records Set for an Entire Year: Global Warming’s Marine Impact ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
For the past year, the world’s oceans have been charting new territory in warmth, setting daily temperature records since mid-March of the previous ye