oceans

Melting of ice sheets could add up to 16 inches to global oceans by 2100 0
- BUSINESS
- September 1, 2020
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing mass at the ‘worst case scenario’ rate predicted by the UN – and could result in sea levels rising by 16 inches by 2100. According to a new study by the University of Leeds, if these rates continue, an additional 16 million people could be exposed to
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How Antarctic krill fertilise the oceans and even store carbon – all with their poo 0
- BUSINESS
- October 18, 2019
Krill are best known as whale food. But few people realise that these small, shrimp-like creatures are also important to the health of the ocean and the atmosphere. In fact, Antarctic krill can fertilise the oceans, ultimately supporting marine life from tiny plankton through to massive whales and, through their faeces, they can increase the
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Earth’s ‘boring billion’ years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic 0
- BUSINESS
- July 29, 2019
Geologists have dubbed Earth’s middle age the “boring billion”. Occurring some 1,800 to 800 million years ago, it has long been considered a period when little happened on Earth in terms of biological evolution, climate, or the chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere. But emerging evidence now suggests that the “boring billion” may have been
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Exquisite fossil finds shed new light on the ‘Cambrian explosion’, when oceans first filled with complex animal life 0
- BUSINESS
- March 23, 2019
The most recent 12% of time on Earth is a striking anomaly when compared with the great bulk of our planet’s evolution. After 3 billion years or more of Earth as a microbial world, cells found ways to grow and assemble in their millions to build eyes, guts, muscles, nerve systems with brains, skeletons and
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The world’s shellfish are under threat as our oceans become more acidic 0
- BUSINESS
- January 29, 2019
For the past few million years the world’s oceans have existed in a slightly alkaline state, with an average pH of 8.2. Now, with carbon emissions escalating, there is more CO₂ in the world’s atmosphere. This dissolves in the oceans, altering the chemistry of the seawater by lowering the pH and making it more acidic
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