El Nino may be behind melting of Antarctica`s Pine Island Glacier

Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 19:42

The floating ice shelf at the tip of Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea, has been melting and thinning for the past four decades causing the glacier to speed up and discharge more ice, researchers say.

Scientists unravelling mysteries of Earth`s Van Allen radiation belts

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 12:25

Researchers are unravelling the longstanding mysteries surrounding the Van Allen radiation belts that circle Earth.

Early Earth harboured lava oceans

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 19:35

The young Earth`s mantle harboured two magma oceans which were layered like a pudding cake, scientists say.

`Oceans absorbing excess heat from global warming`

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 13:32

A new study has lent weight to the idea that the oceans are taking up some of the excess heat.

Business urged to do more to save oceans: World Bank study

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 14:33

Businesses should play a bigger role in helping to save depleted fish stocks as part of efforts to prevent irreversible damage to the oceans, a World-Bank backed report said.

Warmer oceans could raise mercury levels in fish

Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 16:14

Rising ocean surface temperatures caused by climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood, scientists have found.

Oceans face `deadly trio` of threats, study says

Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 21:30

The world`s oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday.

Greenland Sea warming faster than world`s oceans

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 14:50

Researchers have said that recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean.

Strong westerly winds behind dramatic increase in Antarctic sea ice levels

Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 14:10

Despite warmer air and oceans, there`s more sea ice in Antarctica now than in the 1970s, a new study suggests.

How marine life adapts to acidification of oceans revealed

Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2013, 13:30

A study into marine life around an underwater volcanic vent in the Mediterranean, may hold the key to understanding how some species will be able to survive the acidifying of sea water.