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Even a limited nuclear war could devastate the world's oceans: here's what our modelling shows

The US and Russia have recently agreed to hold talks on the New START Treaty, the only accord left regulating the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world. While this is undoubtedly good news, we must not allow it to lull us into complacency. Global events this year, most notably…

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Joan Didion for sale: the auction of the author's belongings reveals the grand fiction of her image

There are few writers as visually distinctive as Joan Didion. We have glimpses of her as a young reporter with her delicately poised silk scarf and anorak. A decade later we see her on the porch of her Malibu home, casting an ironic glance at her partner and daughter in…

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Climate change will disrupt El Nino and La Nina 40 years earlier than thought

Climate change will influence our weather sooner than thought. This has big implications for how we prepare for extreme weather events.

The New Daily

Climate change will clearly disrupt El Niño and La Niña this decade – 40 years earlier than we thought

You’ve probably heard a lot about La Niña lately. This cool weather pattern is the main driver of heavy rain and flooding that has devastated much of Australia’s southeast in recent months.

The Conversation

US offshore wind energy industry faces blowback from locals

The offshore wind power energy has ambitious plans for generating electricity for millions of American homes

The Independent UK

France to deport 44 migrants rescued in Ocean Viking operation

France has rejected asylum applications from 44 of the 234 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the emergency vessel Ocean Viking. They will be returned to their country of origin, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Tuesday. The fate of others is still to be decided.

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Holiday hell of disabled people exposed with over half staying home after bad experiences

New research conducted by Essex-based Ocean Holidays has revealed that 51% of people with disabilities find holidays stressful and a third (36%) find them frustrating to plan and book

Daily Mirror

Why is so much of Australia flooding right now?

Full dams and saturated soil from three consecutive years of La Niña events leave a landscape with little ability to absorb more rain

The Guardian - AU

Restoring Mayotte’s lagoon: when a newly born volcano meets human resilience

One of France’s five overseas departments, Mayotte is the southernmost island of the Comoros Archipelago, located Indian ocean between Madagascar and the African mainland. The island is the centrepiece of a coral-reef structure that was created over hundreds of thousands of years through volcanic episodes, subsidence and sea-level shifts. Made…

The Conversation

Florida county puts damage from Nicole at $481 million

Damages are estimated at more than $481 million in a central Florida coastal county where homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean following Hurricane Nicole last week

The Independent UK

Mangrove forests won't be able to spread further in South Africa, so protecting them is crucial

Mangrove forests are a common sight in some tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world like Indonesia, Florida in the US, parts of Brazil and Australia. They can also be found on African coasts, including South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.

The Conversation

Philippines lower house approves bill taxing single-use plastics

The Philippines' lower house of Congress approved on Monday a measure that would slap taxes on single-use plastics, in step with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr's commitment to tackle ocean pollution.

Reuters

Can adding minerals to ocean curb climate change? Elon Musk backs UM grad’s research

MIAMI -- Laura Stieghorst was sitting in the back of a University of Miami classroom in November 2021 when she got the email that would change her life.

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Glassy fangs and glowing fins: amazing deep sea animals found near Cocos Islands

Discovered in the deep: Scientists exploring the uncharted waters of the Indian Ocean uncover a multitude of dazzling sea creatures around a remote Australian island group

The Guardian - AU

‘Like an ocean’: Molong devastated by deluge with more NSW towns hit with fresh flooding

Swathes of the New South Wales central west were battered by rain and powerful storms overnight

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Secrets of North Queensland's forgotten World War II history remain ocean deep

In Australia's biggest defence city, untold stories of Australia's of military history are still being uncovered.

Inverse

Marine biologists are proposing a radical new approach to wildlife conservation

Mapping the spatial distribution and movement patterns of marine animals that are endangered or threatened is essential for defining critical habitat

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Mediterranean marine heatwaves threaten coastal livelihoods

(This Nov. 13 story has been corrected to show sea is overall 1.2C warmer than 30 years ago, not 0.4C, in 18th paragraph)

The National (Scotland)

‘If we exceed 1.5C sea ice will melt leading to extreme storms’, scientist warns

SMALL, white, fluffy and helpless, the little harp seal stares out at the vast ocean as it floats on a perilously tiny piece of ice in the Arctic.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Quad's Malabar joint drills opened to press

The Maritime Self-Defense Force on Friday invited the press to observe Malabar, a joint exercise with the U.S., Australian and Indian navies and the Australian air force being conducted in Pacific Ocean waters south of the Kanto region.

Asharq Al-Awsat

France Accepts Migrant Ship as Row with Italy Blazes

A rescue ship carrying 230 migrants docked at the French port of Toulon on Friday amid a blazing row between France and Italy over which country is responsible for them. The Ocean Viking, operated by a French NGO, had picked up the migrants at sea near the Libyan coast before…

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Saint-Louis is being swallowed by the sea. Residents are bracing for a new reality

The problem is as simple as it is devastating: the Atlantic Ocean is expanding into Senegal, and Saint-Louis is ground zero. Every year, the island loses a little bit of land to the sea.

WEKU

France accepts a migrant rescue ship as relations sour with Italy

France allowed the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship to dock in the port of Toulon on Friday, after Italy's new far-right government refused to accept it. More than 200 migrants were aboard the ship.

Daily Mirror

Joe Biden's $100 million climate pledge is just a 'drop in the ocean' for global crisis

US President Joe Biden announced $100million for climate adaptation and an Inflation Reduction Act at COP27 with new regulations to cut methane by 30% by 2030

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