PMEL in the News
Global warming is speeding up Earth’s massive ocean currents
The oceans’ great continent-wrapping currents, each one moving as much water as all the world’s rivers combined, can rightly be considered the planet’s circulatory system. And this circulation, it appears, has started to thump faster: For nearly 25 years the currents have been rapidly speeding up, partly because of global warming. Mike McPhaden is a co-author on this study.
The world’s oceans are speeding up — another mega-scale consequence of climate change
Three-quarters of the world’s ocean waters have sped up their pace in recent decades, scientists reported Wednesday, a massive development that was not expected to occur until climate warming became much more advanced. Mike McPhaden is quoted.
New study details negative impacts of ocean acidification on Oregon crabs
COOS COUNTY, Ore. - A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looks into ocean acidification on the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the negative impacts on crab. Richard Feely is quoted.
Study: Ocean Acidification Is Dissolving Shells Of Young Dungeness Crab
A new study finds ocean acidification is already dissolving the shells and damaging the sensory organs of young Dungeness crab off the West Coast. So far, it’s unclear what that means for Oregon’s most valuable fishery. Richard Feely is quoted.
Crab larvae off Oregon and Washington suffering shell damage from ocean acidification, new research shows
Ocean acidification is damaging the shells of young Dungeness crab in the Northwest, an impact that scientists did not expect until much later this century, according to new research. Richard Feely is quoted.