Month: January 2015

“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event.” That quote from a member of the research team that published “Marine Defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean” just published in the journal Science. Ecologists and scientists from Rutgers University, the University of California system and Stanford...

Life's Engines How Microbes Made Earth Habitable | Princeton University Press  For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep...

Handbook of Sea-Level Research Professor Ian Shennan (Editor), Professor Antony J. Long (Editor), Dr Benjamin P. Horton (Editor) ISBN: 978-1-118-45258-5 600 pages March 2015, Wiley-Blackwell Measuring sea-level change – be that rise or fall – is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific...

A team of researchers reported Wednesday that the ocean did not rise quite as much as previously believed in the 20th century. They proposed a seemingly tiny adjustment that could make a big difference in scientific understanding of the looming problem of sea-level rise. Instead of rising about six inches...