Oceans in the News

A compilation of current news relevant to oceans and climate as guided by COSEE-OS concept maps. These maps and our interface (under development) address Ocean Literacy Essential Principle #3: "The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate".

Search "Oceans in the News" by Key Phrase
Airborne particles		Major algal blooms
Atmosphere & ocean trap and store heat		Major storms
Atmospheric circulation		Microscopic organisms
Bacteria		Mixed upper ocean currents
Biological pump		Move heat around the globe
Boiling point		Move water around the globe
Buried or sequestered carbon		Natural processes
Carbon dioxide (dissolved)		Nutrients in the ocean
CFCs		Ocean acidification
Climate change		Ocean circulation
Climate warming		Ocean heat storage
CO2 and methane		Ocean salinity
Coastal 'dead' zones		Orbital path around the sun
Day & night		Organic carbon
Deep ocean currents		Oxygen
Deforestation		Ozone hole
Distance from the sun		Permafrost thaw
Drought		Planets intercept light and heat energy
Dust storms		Pollution
Earth's gravity field		Precipitation, condensation and evaporation
Earth's rotation		Presence of heat-trapping, liquid water
Ecosystem change		Primary producers and grazers
El Niño / La Niña		Primary productivity
Fecal pellets		Salt water in the oceans
Food web		Sea level
Fossil fuels		Sea surface temperature
Fossil record		Seasons
Freezing point		Skin cancer
Freshwater in clouds, etc.		Solid
Gas		Subsurface temperature
Greenhouse effect		Sun
Human industrial processes		Surface color (albedo)
Hurricanes		Tides
Inorganic carbon		Tilt of spin axis
Insects and organisms that carry disease		Transport processes
Jet streams and surface winds		Upwelling
Land runoff and floods		UV radiation
Life		Water cycle
Liquid		Water density
Living things & non-living things		Water phase and properties

Teachers! Are you interested in using a set of guiding questions to assist your students in reading current events? Read about the growing evidence and strategy for providing current event items to students in - Bringing Ocean Science News To the Classroom.

Oceans in the News provides the following services:

• a clearinghouse of current, relevant headlines including a brief synopsis of story with references to source and/or full text documents;
  
  
• highlight freely available web content (e.g., press releases from NSF, NOAA, NASA, US Global Climate Change Research Program, academic and research institutions, along with popular magazines/newspapers);
  
  
• links to relevant visualizations.

Feature Articles

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change A comprehensive and rigorous picture of the global present state of knowledge of climate change. Science Bulletins The American Museum of Natural History brings you feature stories, interactive data visualizations, and weekly Snapshot images to learn about recent discoveries and new technologies in astrophysics, Earth science, and biodiversity. Is Global Warming Changing the Arctic? In the Arctic, the air, sea ice, and underlying ocean all interact in a delicately balanced system. To understand why, you have to follow the water. A five part series discussing the Arctic - reported in Oceanus the Magazine that Explores the Oceans in Depth, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "Our Changing World" Understanding the Science of Climate Change Special Report by the Bangor Daily News in collaboration with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute.

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