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Warming Climate Unlikely to Cause Major Methane Release

By National Science Foundation on Mar 3, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Warming Climate Unlikely to Cause Major Methane Release

  A long-feared scenario in which global warming causes Arctic permafrost to melt and release enough methane—a potent greenhouse gas–to accelerate warming and cause catastrophe probably won’t happen. That is the conclusion of a study appearing in the journal Science that began more than 20 years ago as a query posed by Jeff Severinghaus, a geoscientist at the Scripps Institution […]

Researchers Find New Reason Why Arctic is Warming So Fast

By National Science Foundation on Mar 3, 2020   Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Researchers Find New Reason Why Arctic is Warming So Fast

  The Arctic has experienced the warming effects of global climate change faster than any other region on the planet. Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed a new theory aided by computer simulations and observations that helps explain why this occurs. A team led by Scripps researcher Emma Beer observed the changes taking place […]

Microplastics Million Times More Abundant in the Ocean Than Previously Thought

By National Science Foundation on Dec 16, 2019   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Microplastics Million Times More Abundant in the Ocean Than Previously Thought

Mini-microplastics uncovered in the stomachs of filter-feeding marine organisms Nothing seems safe from plastic contamination. A new study by NSF-funded researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated. Biological oceanographer Jennifer Brandon found some of the tiniest microplastics in seawater at much higher […]

Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered off Remote Alaskan Island by NOAA-Supported Scientists

By NOAA on Aug 16, 2018   At Sea, Featured, National, National/World  

Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered off Remote Alaskan Island by NOAA-Supported Scientists

For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn off by an explosion while conducting an anti-submarine patrol. Seventy-one U.S. Navy Sailors were lost in the aftermath of the blast, […]



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