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RISING SEA LEVELS THREAT: A SHRINKING EUROPEAN COASTLINE IN 2100?
Monitoring sea levels is key to tracking the evolution of our climate, says Jean-Noel Thepaut, Head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service... READ MORE›
OCEANS SUFFOCATING AS HUGE DEAD ZONES QUADRUPLE SINCE 1950, SCIENTISTS WARN
Furthermore, the level of oxygen in all ocean waters is falling, with 2 percent - 77bn tonnes - being lost since 1950... READ MORE›
'BURIED IN MARSHES': SEA-LEVEL RISE COULD DESTROY HISTORIC SITES ON US EAST COAST
Scientists have warned that the break up of the Antarctic ice sheet could significantly fuel sea level rise, pushing the global increase to around 6ft by 2100... READ MORE›
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EARTH'S OCEANS ARE WARMING 13% FASTER THAN THOUGHT, AND ACCELERATING
Over 90 percent of the extra heat ends up in the ocean and hence perhaps the most important measurements of global warming are made in the oceans... READ MORE›
'NO CORPORATION HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING THIS BIG OR BAD'
Greenhouse gases are rising due to the burning of fossil fuels, a key Exxon researcher told an audience of engineers at a conference in 1991... READ MORE›
VOYAGE TO THE SEA FLOOR: EXPEDITION RETURNS WITH FASCINATING FINDS
Museum Victoria collects gelatinous fish, spiny crabs, scarlet sea-spiders, nightmarish cookie cutter sharks and plenty of rubbish... READ MORE›
NEW STUDY CONFIRMS THE OCEANS ARE WARMING RAPIDLY
The most important measurement of global warming is in the oceans... READ MORE›
WHAT THE DUTCH CAN TEACH THE WORLD ABOUT MANAGING FLOODS
Prior to his mission to take Dutch water management expertise around the world, Ovink was the Netherlands' chief of water management and spatial planning ... READ MORE›
WARMING OF OCEANS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE, SAY US SCIENTISTS
Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO SMALLEST EVER EXTENT
People sceptical of mainstream findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDERS CALL FOR AUSTRALIA NOT TO FUND ADANI COALMINE
Australia needs to make a stronger contribution to fight climate change and its impacts, the report says... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS SHATTERED AS CLIMATE CHANGE 'PLAYS OUT BEFORE US'
Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international 'state of the climate' report finds... READ MORE›
TRUMP REJECTS CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT MAR-A-LAGO COULD BE LOST TO THE SEA
Donald Trump shelled out 409,759 for property taxes in 2016 on Mar-a-Lago, his oceanfront club above billionaire's row in Palm Beach, Fla... READ MORE›
MARINE FOOD CHAINS AT RISK OF COLLAPSE, EXTENSIVE STUDY OF WORLD'S OCEANS FINDS
Meanwhile, warming of the oceans is causing water to thermally expand, fuelling sea level rises caused by melting land ice... READ MORE›
NARWHALS ARE HELPING NASA UNDERSTAND MELTING ICE AND RISING SEAS
The narwhals like it, said Josh Willis, the project lead for NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland... READ MORE›
'FACELESS' FISH MISSING FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY REDISCOVERED BY AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS
On board the Investigator research vessel for the month-long voyage are 27 scientists, 13 technicians and 20 crew... READ MORE›
'PRISTINE' ANTARCTIC ROSS SEA DECLARED OFFICIAL UN MARINE PROTECTED AREA
Johnson said the WWF would be working hard to make the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area permanent... READ MORE›
SEA LEVEL RISE WILL DOUBLE COASTAL FLOOD RISK WORLDWIDE
The research takes in to account the large waves and storm surges that can tip gradually rising sea levels over the edge of coastal defences... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI CARRIED A MILLION SEA CREATURES FROM JAPAN TO US WEST COAST
Some of the creatures - about two-thirds of which had never been seen on the US west coast - reproduced as they drifted eastward... READ MORE›
STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS NOW: THERE IS NO CO2 'TECHNOFIX', SCIENTISTS WARN
In a thought experiment they tried another option the future dramatic removal of huge volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere... READ MORE›
MARCH TEMPERATURE SMASHES 100-YEAR GLOBAL RECORD
This means that there is a high risk of record global temperatures over the next few months, Scaife said... READ MORE›
'THE ATMOSPHERE IS BEING RADICALIZED' BY CLIMATE CHANGE
Its record-breaking rainfall and storm surge caused historic flooding and destructive winds along the coasts of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia... READ MORE›
LEAVE OIL RIGS IN THE NORTH SEA SAY CONSERVATIONISTS
Leave oil rigs in the North Sea, say conservationists... READ MORE›
WEAK SUN COULD OFFSET SOME GLOBAL WARMING IN EUROPE AND US STUDY
Regional impact of a weaker solar cycle likely to be larger than global effect, with only minimal impact on worldwide temperature rises caused by climate change... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WASHES UP IN GERMANY AFTER 108 YEARS AT SEA
It is thought the postcard Mrs Winkler discovered may be the oldest message-in-a-bottle ever found... READ MORE›
MH370 SEARCH DATA UNVEILS FISHING HOT SPOTS, ANCIENT GEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS
It was published online by Geoscience Australia on Wednesday, with a further tranche due to be published next year... READ MORE›
'LEWIS IS NOT GONE:' MARINER'S BOTTLED MESSAGE FOUND IN IRELAND, YEARS AFTER DEATH
Lewis Knight's home, where the family still lives, is filled with postcards and responses to his bottled messages... READ MORE›
14 OF THE 15 HOTTEST YEARS ON RECORD HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 2000 UN SAYS
The WMO said it was notable that 2014's record temperatures occurred without a fully-developed El Ni o event... READ MORE›
WHAT IS THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE CITY?
Drinking water is also affected because Detroit is particularly vulnerable to water-borne pathogens, and the larvae gruesomely referred to as Chicago Climate Change Maggots ... READ MORE›
HOTTEST EVER JUNE MARKS 14TH MONTH OF RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES
Nasa's Walt Meir said the global temperatures have been exacerbated by extreme temperatures over the Arctic... READ MORE›
STORM AND DROUGHT: WHAT EUROPE HAS TO FEAR FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
But climate change could transform this landscape and erase the cultivation of Andalucian olives... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
It also found that the 20th century wasn't the only time period when temperature and global sea level changed together, wrote Kopp... READ MORE›
WORLDS OLDEST MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE EVER FOUND FINALLY WASHES UP AFTER 108 YEARS
She told local paper the Amrum News the clear glass bottle had a note inside bearing only the words Break the bottle... READ MORE›