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  Ocean acidification

  Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by their uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Between 1751 and 2004 ... > more
• Botany
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Marine Biology
  Sea Life
  Nature
   
  

  Phytoplankton

  Phytoplankton refers to the autotrophic component of the plankton that drifts in the water column. Most phytoplankton are too small to be individually seen with the unaided eye. Phytoplankton, like ... > more
• Global Warming
  Water
  Geography
  Oceanography
  Climate
  Ice Ages
   
  

  Iceberg

  An iceberg is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. Since the density of pure water ice is ca. 920 kg/m3, and that of sea ... > more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Oceanography
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geography
   
  

  Greenland ice sheet

  The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast body of ice covering roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost ... > more
• Oceanography
  Floods
  Geography
  Landslides
  Global Warming
  Ecology
   
  

  Coast

  The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline is properly, a line on a map indicating the disposition of a coast but the word is often used to refer to the ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Earth Science
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Geology
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
   
  

  Tide

  Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth. Tides cause changes in the depth of the sea, and also produce ... > more
• Marine Biology
  Oceanography
  Fish
  Geography
  Fisheries
  Extinction
   
  

  Dead zone (ecology)

  Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world's oceans, the observed incidences of which have been increasing since oceanographers began noting them in the 1970s. The term could as well ... > more
• Geology
  Earth Science
  Atmosphere
  Earthquakes
  Geochemistry
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Geophysics

  Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, geodesy, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity ... > more
• Oceanography
  Landslides
  Water
  Floods
  Environmental Science
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Coastal erosion

  Coastal erosion is common phrase referring to the loss of subaerial landmass into a sea or lake due to natural processes such as waves, winds and tides, or even due to human interference. Large ... > more
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Climate
  Geography
  Oceanography
  Snow and Avalanches
   
  

  Antarctic ice sheet

  The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic km of ice. Around 90 percent of the fresh water on ... > more

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