Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's climate, and the ice is a ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study ...

Blooms of coccolithophores can also be beneficial for the local environment. For example, their calcium carbonate scales can act as a natural buffer, "dissolving under certain conditions and helping ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

NASA’s satellites have been photographing the open ocean. Three oceanographers from Duke used this data to examine how the ...

A new study from Duke showed oceans are getting greener at the poles and bluer in the subtropical regions, like off the SC ...

Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of ...

A global ocean color shift is underway, with greener waters near the poles and bluer seas in the tropics, impacting many ...

Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, ...