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In the deep #oceans, things change slowly, but the press for deep-sea #mining of polymetal deposits is changing quickly. Without regulation, large tracks of the still not well-documented Abyssal Plain #benthos …

Deep-sea expedition captures stunning images of creatures in Pacific mining zone
Ancient glass sponges. A Barbie-pink sea pig sauntering along the seafloor. A transparent unicumber hovering in the depths.

“One such innovation is the ‘naked clam’ — the name my fellow researcher and I have given to shipworms, the world’s fastest-growing bivalve with a taste like oysters.”
Shipworms. The new hipster seafood? If hidden in sauce, or if accompanied by enough aperitif, why not…
From FT, To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’ https://o…

To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’
People (and fish) need to consume this seafood rather than wiping out stocks of the ‘big five’

A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than all of Earth's oceans #space

A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than all of Earth's oceans
"I had never imagined that we could capture an image of oceans of water vapor in the same region where a planet is likely forming."

Ice sheets are large masses and their gravity attracts ocean water
So the average sea level is higher closer to Greenland and to Antarctica.
But there is only a finite volume of water in the oceans, so a higher sea level close to the ice sheets means lower sea levels further away in the tropics for example.
As the ice sheet melts and gets smaller, its gravitational pull becomes smaller so the average height of the sea around Greenland and Antarctica is lower than it was befo…

Sterna Paradisaea
Arctic, Antarctic, climate, ice, science, nature

“One such innovation is the ‘naked clam’ — the name my fellow researcher and I have given to shipworms, the world’s fastest-growing bivalve with a taste like oysters.”
Shipworms. The new hipster seafood? If hidden in sauce, or if accompanied by enough aperitif, why not…
From FT, To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’ https://o…

To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’
People (and fish) need to consume this seafood rather than wiping out stocks of the ‘big five’

♨️ Five new hydrothermal vents discovered in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-hydrothermal-vents-eastern-tropical-pacific.html

Five new hydrothermal vents discovered in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean
The pace of discovery in the oceans leaped forward thanks to teamwork between a deep-sea robot and a human occupied submarine leading to the discovery of five new hydrothermal vents in the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.

Congratulations, humanity: you've killed the planet
When Oceans Close – New Study Suggests the Atlantic Will “Soon” Enter Its Declining Phase
https://scitechdaily.com/when-oceans-close-new-study-suggests-th…

When Oceans Close – New Study Suggests the Atlantic Will “Soon” Enter Its Declining Phase
Recent research employing computational simulations predicts that the subduction zone presently beneath the Strait of Gibraltar will extend further into the Atlantic, playing a key role in the development of an Atlantic subduction system – essentially an Atlantic ring of fire. In geological timefram

🐳 Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-starvation-decimated-gray-whales-pacific.html

Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?
When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America's Pacific Coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate on the reason: Was it disease? Ocean pollution? Increasing ship collisions?

"No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific"
#Fishing #Oceans

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific
The Emperor Seamount Chain is a massive and richly biodiverse set of underwater mountains stretching about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) south from the Aleutian Islands in the northwest Pacific. From the 1960s until the 1980s, bottom trawlers plied the area aggressively, decimating deep-sea coral communities and fish stocks, and removing biomass to a degree not […]

"Carbon emissions and El Nino push oceans to record temperatures
Months of record breaking temperatures and the El Niño weather phenomenon pushed the heating up of the world's oceans to a new peak in February, scientists said.
#CO2Emissionen #ElNino

Carbon emissions and El Nino push oceans to record temperatures
Months of record breaking temperatures and the El Niño weather phenomenon pushed the heating up of the world's oceans to a new peak in February, scientists said.

Microsoft Oceans from 1995, which you can now get via archive.org #MicrosoftOceans

Microsoft Oceans : Microsoft Home : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Multimedia CD-ROM for Windows 3.1.

One of the #DFO advisory groups I have been involved with has finally published the findings from the National Dreissena (Zebra and Quagga Mussel) risk assessment for #Canada (model includes US as well). This was a Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (

"Climate change: World's oceans reach record temperature, prompting fears of worst mass bleaching"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans

Climate change: World's oceans reach record temperature, prompting fears of worst mass bleaching

I like the way Issac Authur uses the word "doable".
You wanna spin up the moon so it goes 30 times faster to give it a 24 hour day? Sure. That's doable.
Ship an oil-taker full of water onto the moon every second for thirty thousand years to create oceans? Yeah, doable, but you'd probably stop early because of property values.
Build a black-hole in the center of the moon to increase it's gravity to earth-levels? Doable. Just have to get the mass from Jupiter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3mSljAbNE

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Storms Over Oceans:
🎵 Adrift
#StormsOverOceans
https://open.spotify.com/track/50SV1YG4ESwOHrNvrr633R

The fact that food is more expensive than cheap electronic junk is sign how our civilization failed.
I don't mean to say that food isn't valuable. However, it's absurd that stuff we don't need, these gadgets born of criminal exploitation of nature and people, living their short lives purely for the purpose of driving mindless consumption, and then piling up on landfills, and in oceans, are so cheap.
#AntiCapitalism

Warmer oceans might cause #glaciers to break apart more quickly.
A 6.5-mile #crack formed in 2012 on Pine Island Glacier— a retreating ice shelf that holds back the larger West Antarctic ice sheet — in about 5 and a half minutes.
The rift opened at about 115 feet per second, or about💥 80 miles per hour.💥

The 80 MPH Glacier Fracture: A Wake-Up Call From Antarctica
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understoo

🦠 Research into marine plastic pollution reveals bacterial enzymes actively degrading plastic
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-marine-plastic-pollution-reveals-bacterial.html

Research into marine plastic pollution reveals bacterial enzymes actively degrading plastic
A new study led by researchers at the University of Stirling has uncovered the crucial roles of bacteria living on plastic debris. The research also identifies rare and understudied bacteria that could assist in plastic biodegradation, offering new insights for tackling plastic pollution.

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Synthetic Lagrangian Turbulence by Generative Diffusion Models
Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems related to the physics of dispersion and mixing in engineering, bio-fluids, atmosphere, oceans, and astrophysics. Despite exceptional theoretical, numerical, and experimental efforts conducted over the past thirty years, no existing models are capable of faithfully reproducing statistical and topological properties exhibited by particle trajectories in turbulence. We propose a machine learning approach, based on…

On subject of #Antarctica, today our #HorizonEurope project @… welcomes a new partner: National Antarctic Science Center of #Ukraine join us thanks to the #EU widening access programme.
They will deploy new instruments in the oceans around the continent, closing the gap in observations and making us a truly circum-Antarctic project as well as running advanced state-of-the-art models of under ice shelf melting.
Welcome 🇺🇦 friends 🤗🇦🇶
Details here soon no doubt: https://ocean-ice.eu/

"Climate change is depleting deep sea oxygen, but tides are helping to keep the ocean healthy"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans

Climate change is depleting deep sea oxygen, but tides are helping to keep the ocean healthy
Warmer water holds less oxygen, while warmer fish need more oxygen.

The whales are reported to have said, “Stop fucking up the oceans, you little meat sacs!”
https://mastodon.cloud/@DamnInteresting/112287108357925702

Damn Interesting (@DamnInteresting@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image Scientists claim to have successfully ‘conversed’ with a whale as proxy for aliens https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/whale-humans-conversation-seti-aliens-b2529941.html?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Serious question... if the AMOC shuts down, does Spain (the Iberian peninsula) become more temperate because northern Europe has more winter cold snaps as the jetstream flies further south more often, or does it become drier because there just isn't that much difference moisture wise... so essentially, desertification/expansion of the Sahara?

a deadly #BirdFlu outbreak has skipped species impact and been affecting seal and #SeaLion colonies...
#SouthAmerica has been particularly hard hit with over 20,000

Bird flu is killing thousands of seals
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe. This virus isn’t thought to be a major threat to humans, but its spread in farming operations and ecosystems has caused widespread econom…

Meet the people who keep the Internet going:
"subsea cables are also part—a foundational part—of the tech industry… You’re dealing with the most hostile environment on the planet, eight kilometers deep in the oceans, working with some pretty high technology, traveling all over the world. You’re on the forefront of geopolitics, and it’s critical for the whole way the world operates now.”

Shut up, scienceoid. We will turn the oceans into lemonade.

Planet Wild is misschien wel het de leukste goede doel dat ik ken. Doe mee via https://planetwild.com https://climatejustice…

Restoring the planet, one mission at a time · Planet Wild
Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We are on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our oceans and to rewild entire landscapes with your help.

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.
Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704<…

Can we just give Boyan Salat a Nobel Prize already? A decade ago his Ocean Cleanup plans to tackle the 5 largest oceanic garbage patches - and the 1,000 rivers that feed most plastics into oceans - were just sketches. Now there are ops all over the world, extracting or intercepting *massive* amounts of plastics (the statistics and visuals in this video are stunning). It's some of the most effective environmental protection work being done anywhere.

"Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse"
#Coral #CoralReef #Oceans

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Storms Over Oceans:
🎵 Adrift
#StormsOverOceans
https://open.spotify.com/track/50SV1YG4ESwOHrNvrr633R

The fact that food is more expensive than cheap electronic junk is sign how our civilization failed.
I don't mean to say that food isn't valuable. However, it's absurd that stuff we don't need, these gadgets born of criminal exploitation of nature and people, living their short lives purely for the purpose of driving mindless consumption, and then piling up on landfills, and in oceans, are so cheap.
#AntiCapitalism

#TodayILearned that there are many massive rivers, thousands of km long, snaking over the very bottom of the oceans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmIBabc7yc
They are v…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05864 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Distinguishing oceans of water from magma on mini-Neptune K2-18b
Mildly irradiated mini-Neptunes have densities potentially consistent with them hosting substantial liquid water oceans (`Hycean' planets). The presence of CO2 and simultaneous absence of ammonia (NH3) in their atmospheres has been proposed as a fingerprint of such worlds. JWST observations of K2-18b, the archetypal Hycean, have found the presence of CO2 and the depletion of NH3 to <100 ppm; hence, it has been inferred that this planet may host liquid water oceans. In contrast, climate modellin…

Oh shit...
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds | Oceans | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circulation-nearing-de…

Great Lakes Food Webs Science Advice Clients : #1 FFHPP
“Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread” Austin O’Malley
The final in this series of clients that our lab at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) provides science advice to is another part of DFO. The Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program (FFHPP) is part of the Aquatic Ecosystems policy and regulatory arm of DFO. Their primary role is to administer and ensure compliance around s…

Purple was clever, though I only got it by default. I wish it Iincluded Oceans. #Connections
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Disposable wooden cutlery emits 73% less CO2-eq than disposable plastic cutlery. Cutlery made of bio-plastic emits practically the same as conventional plastic (only < 1% less).
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/24/16563

Carbon Footprint of Single-Use Plastic Items and Their Substitution
Single-use plastic is having a significant environmental impact and its reduction is a mandatory step to reduce plastic pollution worldwide. Indeed, the time that a plastic item can persist in the environment is very long and it is well known that it can produce devastating effects in particular in seas and oceans. Moreover, production, use and disposal of plastic items have a significant impact also on the greenhouse effect; this can be estimated in a life cycle approach, by evaluating their c…

Mars attracts: how Earth’s interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea circulation - Scimex
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/mars-attracts-how-earths-interactions-with-the-red-planet-drive-deep-sea-circulation…

Mars attracts: how Earth’s interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea circulation
Mars attracts: how Earth’s interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea circulation Research from the University of Sydney and Sorbonne University suggests that giant whirlpools in warming oceans could run counter to ocean stagnation that some have predicted could impact the Gulf Stream.

FGBERT: Function-Driven Pre-trained Gene Language Model for Metagenomics
ChenRui Duan, Zelin Zang, Yongjie Xu, Hang He, Zihan Liu, Zijia Song, Ju-Sheng Zheng, Stan Z. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16901

FGBERT: Function-Driven Pre-trained Gene Language Model for Metagenomics
Metagenomic data, comprising mixed multi-species genomes, are prevalent in diverse environments like oceans and soils, significantly impacting human health and ecological functions. However, current research relies on K-mer representations, limiting the capture of structurally relevant gene contexts. To address these limitations and further our understanding of complex relationships between metagenomic sequences and their functions, we introduce a protein-based gene representation as a context-…

"Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from below"
#ElNino #Antarctica #Ice

Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from below
El Niño can direct more warm water to the base of West Antarctic ice shelves, accelerating melting and increasing global sea level.

Planet Wild is misschien wel het de leukste goede doel dat ik ken. Doe mee via https://planetwild.com https://climatejustice…

Restoring the planet, one mission at a time · Planet Wild
Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We are on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our oceans and to rewild entire landscapes with your help.

"Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from below"
#ElNino #Antarctica #Ice

Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from below
El Niño can direct more warm water to the base of West Antarctic ice shelves, accelerating melting and increasing global sea level.

#TodayILearned that there are many massive rivers, thousands of km long, snaking over the very bottom of the oceans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmIBabc7yc
They are v…

Great Lakes Food Webs Science Advice Clients : #2. ECCC
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” Lewis Carroll
The next science advice client that our lab at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) provides science advice to is related to our mandate under the International Joint Commission. While Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has many regulatory and conservation responsibilities, they are both our…

"Location of Every Photo From the ISS" by natronics
#astrodon

"Even whales in deepest parts of the ocean under threat from human pollution"
#Whales #Oceans #Pollution

Even whales in deepest parts of the ocean under threat from human pollution
In a new study, scientists identified 14 ways in which beaked whales are threatened by human activities, from climate change to sound waves used for ship navigation

Purple was clever, though I only got it by default. I wish it Iincluded Oceans. #Connections
Puzzle № 246
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"Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada"
#Canada #Plastic #Plastics

Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada
Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to end the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes. People are increasingly breathing, eating and drinking tiny particles of plastic. Some at the talks thinks there should be less plastic produced. Oil and gas compa…

🤿 Expedition uses small underwater drone to discover 100-year-old shipwreck
#oceans

Expedition uses small underwater drone to discover 100-year-old shipwreck
The underwater drone Hydrus can capture georeferenced 4K video and images simultaneously.

Tropical cyclones on tidally locked rocky planets: Dependence on rotation period
Valeria Garcia, Cole M. Smith, Daniel R. Chavas, Thaddeus D. Komacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16687

Tropical cyclones on tidally locked rocky planets: Dependence on rotation period
Tropical cyclones occur over the Earth's tropical oceans, with characteristic genesis regions and tracks tied to the warm ocean surface that provides energy to sustain these storms. The study of tropical cyclogenesis and evolution on Earth has led to the development of environmental favorability metrics that predict the strength of potential storms from the local background climate state. Simulations of the gamut of transiting terrestrial exoplanets orbiting late-type stars may offer a test of …

"Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground"
#Oceans #Litter #Pollution

🐳 Can ocean energy power carbon removal?
#oceans

Can ocean energy power carbon removal?
The Caribbean has a problem, and it stinks.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12631 has been replaced.
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Connecting shear-flow and vortex array instabilities in annular atomic superfluids
At the interface between two fluid layers in relative motion, infinitesimal fluctuations can be exponentially amplified, inducing vorticity and the breakdown of the laminar flow. This process, known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, is responsible for many familiar phenomena observed in the atmosphere and in the oceans, as well as in astrophysical objects, being known as one of the paradigmatic routes to turbulence in fluid mechanics. While shear-flow instabilities in classical fluids have b…

"Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground"
#Oceans #Litter #Pollution

“It’s not like we’re breaking records by a little bit now and then,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said. “It’s like the whole climate just fast-forwarded by fifty or a hundred years. That’s how strange this looks.” It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least nine zettajoules. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot

The global #heatwave continues, encompassing almost an entire year. The oceans are extraordinarily hot, and we continue to suffer the consequences. I am not surprised this happened, but it is particularly appalling given the continued, intentional lack of effort by governments to try to mediate carbon emissions and stem

🪐 JWST data suggest exoplanet K2-18b may have molten surface rather than a watery ocean
#planets

JWST data suggest exoplanet K2-18b may have molten surface rather than a watery ocean
A multi-institutional team of astronomers, Earth scientists and planetary physicists has found evidence, via data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), that some hycean exoplanets may have molten surfaces rather than watery oceans. In their study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the team analyzed data from JWST as it was focused on the hycean exoplanet K2-18b.

"Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land, new study finds"
#Oceans #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land, new study finds
A new study by researchers at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, published in Science Advances, reveals that PFAS re-emit into the air from crashing ocean waves at levels comparable to or greater than other sources, establishing a cyclical transport process for these "forever chemicals" between land and sea.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02277 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Zonostrophic turbulence in the subsurface oceans of the Jovian and Saturnian moons
In order to characterize the global circulation of the subsurface ocean of Jovian and Saturnian moons, we analyze the properties of 21 three-dimensional simulations of Boussinesq thermal convection in a rapidly rotating spherical shell. Flow is driven by an adverse temperature contrast imposed across the domain, and is subjected to no-slip boundary conditions. We cover a region of parameter space previously unexplored by global simulations, both in terms of rapid rotation and vigor of convectiv…

"Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land, new study finds"
#Oceans #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land, new study finds
A new study by researchers at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, published in Science Advances, reveals that PFAS re-emit into the air from crashing ocean waves at levels comparable to or greater than other sources, establishing a cyclical transport process for these "forever chemicals" between land and sea.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14805 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Biogenic sulfur gases as biosignatures on temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds
Theoretical predictions and observational data indicate a class of sub-Neptune exoplanets may have water-rich interiors covered by hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. Provided suitable climate conditions, such planets could host surface liquid oceans. Motivated by recent JWST observations of K2-18 b, we self-consistently model the photochemistry and potential detectability of biogenic sulfur gases in the atmospheres of temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds for the first time. On Earth today, organic su…

"Dredging of Puerto Rico’s biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals"
#PuertoRico #Oceans #Animals

Dredging of Puerto Rico's biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels including tankers that will serve a new liquid natural gas terminal. Officials say the dredged material will be deposited into the Atlantic Ocean north of the island in a move approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.…

"Dredging of Puerto Rico’s biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals"
#PuertoRico #Oceans #Animals

Dredging of Puerto Rico's biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels including tankers that will serve a new liquid natural gas terminal. Officials say the dredged material will be deposited into the Atlantic Ocean north of the island in a move approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.…

"Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea"
#Atlantic #Oceans #Biodiversity

Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea - Inside Climate News
A new study documents large-scale ocean system changes that threaten the stability of marine ecosystems in the sea between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

So klein und so wichtig.
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New #NASA #climate #satellite will keep eye on

New NASA climate satellite will keep eye on plankton, clouds. Here's why | CBC News
NASA’s newest climate satellite rocketed into orbit Thursday to survey the world’s oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail.

"Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea"
#Atlantic #Oceans #Biodiversity

Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea - Inside Climate News
A new study documents large-scale ocean system changes that threaten the stability of marine ecosystems in the sea between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Forams are a shelled amoeboid #zooplankton, ecologically important to the worlds #oceans

Marine plankton behavior could predict future marine extinctions, study finds
Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event.

Biogenic sulfur gases as biosignatures on temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds
Shang-Min Tsai, Hamish Innes, Nicholas F. Wogan, Edward W. Schwieterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14805

Biogenic sulfur gases as biosignatures on temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds
Theoretical predictions and observational data indicate a class of sub-Neptune exoplanets may have water-rich interiors covered by hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. Provided suitable climate conditions, such planets could host surface liquid oceans. Motivated by recent JWST observations of K2-18 b, we self-consistently model the photochemistry and potential detectability of biogenic sulfur gases in the atmospheres of temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds for the first time. On Earth today, organic su…

"Octopuses could lose eyesight and struggle to survive if ocean temperatures keep rising, study finds"
#Octopuses #Climate #ClimateChange

"Octopuses could lose eyesight and struggle to survive if ocean temperatures keep rising, study finds"
#Octopuses #Climate #ClimateChange

🐬 Killer whales trapped in drift ice off Japan’s Hokkaido coast escape
#nature #oceans #whales #animals

"Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds"
#Oceans #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Study

"Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Oceans #Pollution

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds
New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.

"Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Oceans #Pollution

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds
New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.