Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
years. A 1999 study using sonar data from nuclear submarines argued that the sea ice that remained in the Arctic was as much as ...
Alaska Natives see these signs, and they note the inaction of politi- cians so far away in Washington, D.C., and they wonder if, ...
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California’s famous coast, the golden shore, the stuff of songs, stretches roughly 1,100 miles from the dry Mediterranean climes ...
In between, plant and animal communities hover in their pre- ferred ranges in overlapping steps, slowly shifting in the same way ...
“I came down here and I had a naïve view of marine science,” he says. At twenty, he had thought the discipline consisted of lear ...
not latch onto the tough granite of the Hopkins intertidal area. But they can wedge themselves into serpulorbusreef and become e ...
fishing and other extraction since the 1930s, so the species found there would be essentially unaffected by human tastes. “For a ...
line ran in a different direction than they had initially thought. Armed with the location of both bolts, they meticulously cons ...
lower, most of what used to be up in his research area shifted a little bit lower. We think that has something to do with temper ...
“This shows that, at a level we wouldn’t have expected, the animals at Hopkins have reacted and responded to a small change in c ...
ward-flowing water running along the western U.S. coastline, roughly from Oregon down through California. Part of a great subtro ...
Life in the ocean begins with tiny plants known as phytoplankton. Like all plants, phytoplankton need light to drive photosynthe ...
in English—historically are the third most abundant in the California Current. Counts of its larvae dropped 50 percent after 197 ...
water floats on top of cold because it’s less dense. And because there’s this sharp layer between the warm upper water and the c ...
As with Gilman and Sagarin’s research, McGowan cannot defini- tively prove that increased carbon in the atmosphere caused heatin ...
From the hill above the refuge’s visitor center, the marshes look like geometric farm plots outlined by sandy dirt roads. Here, ...
Nevertheless, the purchase became controversial because details about pollution and the true value of the land were kept from th ...
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I first heard about coral bleaching from Billy Causey, the manager of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. We were sittin ...
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