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Muser Press – New Research Articles Week 4, 2025Science

Muser Press – New Research Articles Week 4, 2025

Discover the latest articles from leading science journals in the Muser Press weekly roundup, showcasing impactful research published this week. Scientists predict what will be…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJanuary 26, 2025 Full article
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Catastrophic coral bleaching devastates southern Great Barrier ReefScience

Catastrophic coral bleaching devastates southern Great Barrier Reef

Coral bleaching on the southern Great Barrier Reef has reached catastrophic levels, according to a study published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters. Senior author Professor…
SourceSourceJanuary 21, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: December 3, 2024Science

Climate Science Digest: December 3, 2024

Study finds American, Canadian universities vary widely in preparing future urban planners for climate change University of Kansas - Urban and community planners have a…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskDecember 3, 2024 Full article
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Oceans’ sulfur emissions reveal stronger climate-cooling effectsClimate

Oceans’ sulfur emissions reveal stronger climate-cooling effects

New research has unveiled that oceans emit a sulfur gas produced by marine life in quantities that significantly enhance their climate-cooling impact, particularly over the…
SourceSourceNovember 28, 2024 Full article
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Melting Arctic sea ice could disrupt global ocean circulationClimate

Melting Arctic sea ice could disrupt global ocean circulation

(UPDATED) - A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the melting of Arctic sea ice may disrupt ocean circulation patterns, potentially causing…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 28, 2024 Full article
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Microplastics detected in dolphin breathScience

Microplastics detected in dolphin breath

U.S. researchers have found microplastic particles in the breath of wild bottlenose dolphins, suggesting that inhalation could be a significant route of exposure to these…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreOctober 17, 2024 Full article
Whaling: why the practice will not go awayNews

Whaling: why the practice will not go away

By Emilie BICKERTON | AFP Paris, France - The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the…
SourceSourceAugust 24, 2024 Full article
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Underwater mapping reveals new insights into melting of Antarctica’s ice shelvesScience

Underwater mapping reveals new insights into melting of Antarctica’s ice shelves

By University of East Anglia Clues to future sea level rise have been revealed by the first detailed maps of the underside of a floating…
SourceSourceAugust 1, 2024 Full article
Scientists set sail to study Greenland glaciers from underwaterClimate

Scientists set sail to study Greenland glaciers from underwater

By University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin has embarked on a mission to explore the underwater edges of Greenland’s coastal…
SourceSourceAugust 1, 2024 Full article
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High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxesClimate

High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxes

By Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Methane, a strong greenhouse gas that naturally escapes from the bottom of the North Sea, is affected by…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
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Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, study showsClimate

Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, study shows

New findings challenge current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon. By Jennifer Chu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) As climate change advances,…
SourceSourceJuly 8, 2024 Full article
Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off SvalbardClimateScience

Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off Svalbard

By MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen Study of the Jøtul hydrothermal field, discovered in 2022, has now been published in the…
SourceSourceJune 30, 2024 Full article
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CO₂ puts heavier stamp on temperature than thoughtClimate

CO₂ puts heavier stamp on temperature than thought

A doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 to even a…
SourceSourceJune 24, 2024 Full article
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Seaweed forests are an overlooked component of oceanic carbon storageClimate

Seaweed forests are an overlooked component of oceanic carbon storage

A groundbreaking study by an international team of researchers has revealed seaweed forests to be significant contributors to oceanic carbon storage. Their research estimates that…
SourceSourceMay 22, 2024 Full article
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Unveiling the hidden impact of Greenland’s glacial retreat: An analysisScience

Unveiling the hidden impact of Greenland’s glacial retreat: An analysis

A paradigm-shifting study published in the Nature journal on January 17, 2024, has laid bare the extent of Greenland's ice loss, surpassing previous estimates and…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreJanuary 25, 2024 Full article