Southern Ocean

apable effects of a warming world. Miami, and major parts of Florida are a great risk from the earth’s changing climate as the rising oceans threaten to swallow most of the southern half of the state. Tensions between Bangladesh and India intensify as the rising sea water threatens to displace millions of people, with India’s only solution to the issue being to build a larger border. “The Siege of Miami”, written by Elizabeth Kolbert, paints a terrifying portrait of the consequences of rising…

Surfing is only prominent among areas close to the ocean, thus it is important that the physical environment be near a beach. In order to properly observe surf culture, one must go to a physical environment that has a lot of surfers. For example, Huntington Beach is a seaside city that has numerous beaches…

reason indulging in this dish can be so harmful is because of bioaccumulation, explains the Shark Research Institute. Toxins concentrate in animals when they move up the food chain. Since sharks are some of the largest and longest-living species in the ocean, they have a high position on the food chain, so they consume huge amounts of toxins that have accumulated in their prey. Though these benefits have been disproven by modern science, the cultural attachment remains and people still eat it…

The Octopus Cyanea can be found in both the Pacific and Indian oceans, starting from Hawaii and stretching all the way to the eastern coast of Africa. One specimen was collected off the edge of Australia by a researcher. The octopus lives in shallow waters in coral reefs. The range of their inhabitants extends from the Red Sea, to Madagascar, to southern Asia. Habitat…

The snowball Earth Theory was hypothesized by British geologist Brian Harland in 1964. The core ideal of the theory is that during the Pre-Cambrian period, the continents of the Earth were located near the Southern Hemisphere, and the entire planet was covered in glacial ice sheets, from the Poles to the equator (Schrag, et al., 2002). The following essay will aim to explain the theory of the Snowball Earth in detail. Brian Harland based his theory on the fact that he found glacial tillites with…

wave pulled away, Alvarenga was left facedown on the beach. “I held a handful of sand in my hand like it was a treasure,” he said. Alvarenga was discovered by the lone couple who inhabited the island. He had washed ashore on the Ebon Atoll, the southern tip of the Marshall Islands, one of the most remote spots on Earth. Had Alvarenga missed Ebon, the next likely stop was the Philippines, 3,000 miles…

Ocean acidification plays an important role in how healthy the oceans ecosystems are because it allows some species to increase, but also has several negative effects that could cause species to become extinct. Ocean acidification occurs as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the air which then causes the ocean 's pH level to decrease. As the ocean 's acid levels increase, it can affect marine life by helping organisms who make energy by combining sunlight and carbon dioxide, but hurts the…

Threatened means any species likely to become an endangered species in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of its range as defined in the Endangered Species Act. Blue whales are mainly found in open oceans from the icy waters of the very near Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska in the Northern Hemisphere. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher here. They mostly eat krill. The blue whale is one of the most…

in the world one of the biggest pollution issues come from the ocean. Scientists have been studying for years on how to stop the pollution that one has created. If we look bad to the beginning of when America was founded we can see a different between the ways that the land was being treated. The Indians treated the land with respect but it seems the more one looks into the future the people are treating it worst and worst. The ocean is a place one loves to travel to each year. One hates seeing…

to below average sea surface temperatures, or La Niña (Seager et al.). La Niña is the result of cooling sea surface temperatures that lead to an overall temperature of the Pacific Ocean that is below average. These below-average temperatures led to a decrease in precipitation over the central region of the Pacific Ocean (L’Heureux, Becker, DiLiberto, Barnston, and Lindsey). According to Richard Seager et al. in their 2015…