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By asking adults how ocean decline made them feel, a study in Frontiers in Psychology found a striking split in public reaction. In a nationally standardized U.S. sample of 1,226 adults, 27 percent said they felt overwhelmed by the dire state of the ocean and what they could do to help. The same feeling was…
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A Communications Earth & Environment study led by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University found that marine heatwaves often produce stronger daytime surface extremes than standard monitoring captures. The team reports that the daytime subskin sea surface temperature peak is typically 20 to 30% higher during these events, which can push the warmest part of…
A Movement Ecology study found that juvenile white sharks temporarily abandoned a San Diego nursery when Tropical Storm Hilary hit Southern California on August 20, 2023. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and California State University, Long Beach tracked 22 tagged sharks across the storm period. Their records show a fast drop in shark attendance…
A study in Limnology and Oceanography argues that aquatic deoxygenation has become serious enough to track alongside the Earth system limits that define a safe operating space for humanity. The review pulls together evidence from marine waters and fresh waters alike, then asks whether the global loss of dissolved oxygen is moving the planet toward…
