Ancient fossils show how much warming tropical oceans can handle before plankton collapse, offering clues about future ...

The world's oceans are shifting beneath us in ways that researchers say have no real precedent in the modern record. The ...

Observers with New England Aquarium said it's the first time they have documented blue whales in their southern New England ...

Microplastics are found in oceans and waterways all over the world. We are only just beginning to understand the damage they ...

Satellite images show how the dramatic loss of sea ice in Antarctica is transforming the marine food chain, with salps ...

Researchers from NASA’s Earth Science Division have joined the Industry Advisory Board of the Science Center for Marine Fisheries, a partnership intended to expand the use ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

Sunlight beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. This is an example of sunglint, an optical phenomenon ...

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

New study shows melting Antarctic ice adds only a small amount of iron to the ocean. Most iron comes from deep water and sea floor sediments.

Bioluminescent plankton are marine organisms capable of emitting visible light through chemical reactions in their bodies. This unique biochemical trait is attributed to a luciferin-luciferase ...

Pouring 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine removed up to 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without harming wildlife, according to the researchers behind an ocean al ...