Penn State) Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers looking at anaerobic sediments. These same

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous -- a period of greenhouse conditions -- gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to

University of California - Santa Barbara) Coastal marine ecosystems are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara who have recently published a study in the Journal of Conservation Letters. The authors

University of Hawaii at Manoa) Dr. Craig R. Smith, oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, recently published a paper in Marine Ecology Progress Series titled, "Biogeochemistry of a deep-sea whale fall: sulfate, reduction, sulfide efflux and methanogenesis."

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Coastal "squeeze" traps coastal people between the "Devil and the Deep blue sea", around 45 percent of the world population now lives in coastal zones that represent only 5 percent of the land surface.