Radioactive 129I has traveled the equivalent of a third of the way round the globe, since being released from nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in the...
Oceanographers report completing the largest single-site microbiome gene catalog constructed to date. With this new information, the team discovered...
Covering 70 percent of Earth's surface, the world's oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential...
The living, breathing ocean may be slowly starting to suffocate. More than two percent of the ocean's oxygen content has been depleted during the...
While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive impact on some of the United States' most populous...
The causes of coastal flooding in the Maldives are more complex than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers examined wave and sea...
A survey of tens of thousands of marine studies from the last decade reveals current threats to our marine environment. These include: the effects of...
Since an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month, scientists have continued to track its progress using satellites. Their...
Scientists probing under the seafloor off Alaska have mapped a geologic structure that they say signals potential for a major tsunami in an area that...
A coastal zone management plan designed to safeguard Belize's natural assets has produced a win-win opportunity for people and the environment,...
A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are benefiting from 'coral gardening,' the process of restoring coral...
For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At work even longer: the Galveston...
Earlier this year Arctic sea ice sank to a record low wintertime extent for the third straight year. Now NASA is flying a set of instruments north of...
Coral reefs in the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba can resist rising water temperatures, suggests new research. If they survive local pollution, these corals...
Solutions to climate change, and particularly its effects on the ocean, are needed now more than ever. Coral bleaching caused by climate change is a...
The world's most extensive study of a major stormfront striking the coast has revealed a previously unrecognised danger from climate change: as storm...
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