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IMAGE GALLERY Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all marine species and provide billions of dollars in products and services to humans each year. But they are...MORE GALLERIES


	VIDEO MORE VIDEOS Foraminifera on the Seafloor Dr. Karen Bice studies the foraminifera in ocean sediment to better understand c...
	ARTICLE MORE STORIES Climate Change at the Poles At the ends of the Earth, life thrives despite extreme conditions. In the Arctic...
	VIDEO MORE VIDEOS How will climate change affect glaciers and ice sheets? How will changes in temperature affect glaciers and ice sheets? Dr. Sarah Das fr...

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					How will climate change affect glaciers and ice sheets? Apr 24, 2013 - 9:45AMHow will changes in temperature affect glaciers and ice sheets? Dr. Sarah Das from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution explores this phenomenon first hand in Greenland, where she studies how the melted ice travels through...

Blue Carbon

Apr 19, 2013 - 10:05AM

What is blue carbon? It's a term used to describe the carbon that is...

A Colorful Foram: Globigerinoides ruber

Mar 19, 2013 - 9:00AM

This foraminifer was collected as it floated about 3 meters below...

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Climate Change Today, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere are the highest they've been in 15 million years. It's the cumulative...

CO2 Marsh Study

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

How do plants respond to rising CO2 levels? To find out, plant physiologist Bert Drake at SERC exposed marsh plants near the Chesapeake Bay to CO2 levels expected in 50 and 100 years. Different species and ecosystems respond differently—leaving uncertainty about the ability of plants to act as...

Water is Rising: Pacific Islands, Art, and Climate Change

Nov 1 2011 - 11:03am

"This World of Ours, Does not feel steady, We keep rotating, Oi! What will happen to us?"