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Climate change/Environment/Oceanography

Metal inputs from offshore wind farms could pose environmental, economic and human health risks

Georgina Banfield Gordon Watson
March 19, 2025

Offshore wind farms help fight climate change, but could they also be contaminating the ocean with toxic metals? What does this mean for the seafood we eat?

Artificial intelligence/Engineering/Oceanography

Underwater navigation inspired by electric fish’s unique sensing

Jiegang Peng Hailong Wu Meijiang Hou
October 13, 2024

Inspired by electric fish, researchers created a navigation system using active and passive electrolocation, offering a strong alternative to sonar and GPS.

Climate change/Earth sciences/Oceanography

Unseen threats: Coastal aquifers and marine hypoxia

Willard S. Moore Alan M. Shiller Claudia Benitez-Nelson
July 26, 2024

Oxygen-depleting substances from coastal aquifers contribute to hypoxia in estuarine and coastal waters, stressing marine life.

Climate change/Energy/Oceanography

Deoxygenation in seasonally stratified shelf seas and floating wind farms

Tom Rippeth
July 15, 2024

As ocean temperatures rise, seasonal stratification threatens oxygen levels. New wind farms could mitigate the seasonal development of the deepwater oxygen deficit.

Forecasting summer temperature across the Northern Hemisphere: Assessing the predictive limits To what extent can summer surface air temperature over Northern Hemisphere continents be predicted?
Climate change/Meteorology/Oceanography

Forecasting summer temperature across the Northern Hemisphere: Assessing the predictive limits

Chunzai Wang Wen Xing Lei Zhang Jiayu Zheng
February 29, 2024

To what extent can summer surface air temperature over Northern Hemisphere continents be predicted?

Climate change/Meteorology/Oceanography

The Indian Ocean is becoming more active and has started impacting the global climate

Sandeep Mohapatra
October 20, 2022

Tracking changes in the Indian ocean across decades, such as surface temperatures, subsurface temperatures and surface winds, has uncovered its crucial role in climate change.

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