Sentences with phrase «new ocean chemistry»

The result of putting more carbon into the atmosphere than can be taken out of it is a warmer climate, a melting Arctic, higher sea levels, improvements in the photosynthetic efficiency of many plants, an intensification of the hydrologic cycle of evaporation and precipitation, and new ocean chemistry.

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Researchers have decoded the chemistry of the first of a wealth of unique compounds produced by a new genus of bacteria that dwells in deep - ocean sediments, and they have found it to be a potent inhibitor of human cancers in lab experiments.

New research suggests that surface - generated eddies help distribute heat, chemistry and life at deep - ocean hydrothermal vents

Satkoski, who is first author of a new report on ocean chemistry from this remote period, says the conventional wisdom of geology has envisioned an oceanic planet, with little or no land above the waves.

The new name also more accurately reflected the broad - based academic training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology as well as specialized curricular elements related to understanding the oceans as a unified dynamic system and the study of its living components and resources.

Numerous peer - reviewed publications describe evidence that ocean temperatures are rising and ocean chemistry, especially pH, is changing.5 New observational data from buoys and ships document increasing acidity and aragonite under - saturation (that is, the tendency of calcite and aragonite in shells to dissolve) in Alaskan coastal waters.

For example, understanding the decisions leading to different types of energy use could be useful for developing new behaviors and technologies in the future that lessen human impact on atmospheric composition, ocean chemistry, and climate.