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PHYTOPLANKTON DECLINE
In June 2026, El Niño weakened Pacific trade winds, shutting down nutrient-rich upwelling; satellites then watched phytoplankton decline, threatening anchovies and seabirds as the ocean food chain began to unravel- China's rivers and lakes defied a global oxygen crisis across 17 years, and nearly 1,300 sites, and the surprise is that it had nothing to do with slowing down climate change
- In 1988, cargo ships accidentally brought zebra mussels to the US in their ballast water, and they devastated the Great Lakes, but a 2026 study finds that after 20 years in Kansas lakes, they barely changed the fish or the water
- In the 1960s, Sudbury's nickel smelters turned Ontario's lakes acidic, and tiny creatures evolved to survive, but when the pollution cleared, something unexpected happenedScientists witnessed evolution in action as a tiny copepod species, Leptodiaptomus minutus, adapted to acidic lakes in Killarney Provincial...06 Jun, 2026, 05.14 PM IST
- No Sunlight, No Photosynthesis — So How Is the Deep Sea Creating Oxygen?Researchers have discovered evidence of oxygen production in the deep Pacific Ocean, independent of sunlight and living organisms. Polymeta...22 Feb, 2026, 10.00 PM IST
- Antarctica to lose its entire ice? Scientists warn the frozen continent is on the brink of collapse, alarming changes will leave you stunnedAntarctica faces abrupt and irreversible changes impacting ice sheets, oceans, and ecosystems. Scientists warn of global consequences for s...07 Nov, 2025, 09.15 AM IST
- An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet, scientists have doubtsFormed three years ago by a group of entrepreneurs in Israel, the company says it has designed particles that when released in the ocean wi...03 Jul, 2025, 09.25 PM IST
- Study links climate change to decreased fish weight in oceansA study conducted by researchers at the University of Tokyo suggests that climate change may be contributing to a decrease in fish weight i...28 Feb, 2024, 07.05 PM IST
- How shocking the ocean could turn it into a carbon removal powerhouseWhile the ocean is already Earth's most powerful tool for carbon removal, we need it to do some more to reach net zero emissions.15 May, 2023, 09.40 AM IST
- In Silicon Valley, the quest to make gasoline out of thin airExperts increasingly believe that any serious response to climate change must include proactively removing carbon from the atmosphere.01 May, 2019, 10.12 AM IST
- Global fisheries to be 20% less productive in 2300: StudyThis bleak future will be characterised by 9.6 degrees Celsius increase in mean surface air temperature, nearly 10 times the warming we hav...12 Mar, 2018, 12.34 PM IST
- NASA space laser maps polar ocean plants key to lifeWashington, Dec 22 (IANS) A NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth that can see through fog, clouds and darkness has given scientists the...22 Dec, 2016, 11.32 AM IST
- Tossing iron powder into ocean to fight global warmingIndian scientists, along with their foreign counterparts are embarking on an expedition to find whether tossing iron powder into the ocean ...06 Jan, 2009, 09.37 PM IST
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