In a pioneering use of computed tomography (CT) scans, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming is in the process of killing off a major coral species in the Red Sea. As summer sea surface temperatures have remained about 1.5 degrees Celsius above ambient over the [...]

Adding nutrients to the sea could decrease viral infection rates among phytoplankton and enhance the efficiency of the biological pump, a means by which carbon is transferred from the atmosphere to the deep ocean, according to a new mathematical modelling study. The findings, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, have implications for ocean geo-engineering [...]

As global warming threatens many animal species with extinction, the already destructive cane toad is set to flourish with increasing temperature, say Australian scientists.
“The negative effect of high temperature does not operate in Cane Toads, meaning that toads will do very well with human induced global warming,” explains Professor Frank Seebacher from the University of [...]

As global warming threatens many animal species with extinction, the already destructive cane toad is set to flourish with increasing temperature, say Australian scientists.
“The negative effect of high temperature does not operate in Cane Toads, meaning that toads will do very well with human induced global warming,” explains Professor Frank Seebacher from the University of [...]

A NASA-led research team has expanded the growing global armada of remote sensing satellites capable of studying carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate.
The newest addition is the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument on NASA’s Aura spacecraft, launched in 2004. TES measures the state and composition of Earth’s troposphere, the [...]