Medicine & TechnologyThe rise in the sea levels due to the problem on the warming of the Earth is getting worse that experts think we might need to consider building floating cities for survival.
The United Nations says that the ocean heat is setting a new record with its sky high rating in 2018, posing great risks to ocean creatures and to mankind.
A recent study showed that high carbon dioxide level has big impact to oceans as it makes seawater more acidic, which in turn hampers marine process called nitrogen fixation.
The crack in Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf continually grows at an alarming rate. Scientists foresee that it will the biggest in the history to be recorded.
Ocean water may have been more acidic at the beginning of the Earth. Researchers found that the acidity of seawater actually depends on the CO2 level of atmosphere.
According to a new research, the eastern part of the Arctic Ocean gains temperature and loses its fundamental characters and experiencing “Atlantification”.
At the deep surface of the Pacific, researchers found five new hydrothermal vents. the temperature of those places are about 370-degree celsius and water reaches up to 22 meters high.
Scientists found the reason behind the blood-red color of ocean which is commonly known as "Red tide". George Sugihara from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego explained that it caused by the algae bloom.