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A Jacksonville professor is part of an international group of researchers warning of another threat from climate change: salinity levels in the ocean.

Breakthrough research published reveals the pivotal yet largely unexplored factor of climate change-induced salinity changes in oceans and coastlines. Dr Cliff Ross, University of North Florida Biology Chair/Professor, and Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett, UNF Biology Graduate Program Alum and Research Faculty Member at Deakin University in Australia, co-authored the research.

A new study by the University of North Florida reveals that as a result of climate change, variations in salinity have a critical impact on our oceans and coastlines.

Open access notables What does intellectual bankruptcy often look like? Trying to switch topics by going ad hominem, thats what. When somebody stops thinking and begins flinging irrelevant insults, threats and accusations at a person, were seeing a crisply humiliating admission: I have nothing. Going broke isnt free. In the case of climate science its climate scientists who bear costs. Global Witness quantifies this, finding that some 50% of climate scientists have found themselves on ...

Catlin ice base, and the conditions are pretty clear, but were surrounded by an arctic desert. and actually standing on an ocean essentially with about five feet of ice beneath us. >> philippe, what are you doing there? what are you looking for? and what are you going to do to find out what youre out there to find? >> reporter: well, were here for a week, ali, with the catlin arctic survey, a group of scientists looking at various different issues to understand how the arctic system works, how t...