Sentences with phrase «danger of warmer ocean»

Although the map has revealed that some glaciers are thicker than previously thought, the visualisation has also highlighted the danger of warmer ocean currents, which can work up underneath the ice and break it apart.

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It's a sobering fact that the world's coral reefs — habitat to a quarter of marine wildlife — are facing serious danger from ocean pollution and acidification, warming temperatures and human pressures like overfishing and tourism.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

On the Asian side of the city, windsurfers with the Istanbul Wind Surf Center painted the numbers 3, 5, and 0 on their sails and took to the waters of the Marmara Sea, sailing together to spell out «350» to draw attention to the danger global warming poses to the world's oceans.