Volcanic deposits both on land and on the seafloor are rapidly weathered, releasing nutrients like phosphorus to the oceans (example shown here is Montserrat, West…
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[embedded content]The increase in tritium concentration caused by Fukushima discharge over a decade. Macroscopic and microscopic simulations of Fukushima nuclear accident contaminated water discharge. On…
VIPER model. Credit: Impossible Sensing Deep tech start-up specializing in optical sensors and edge analytics partners with BOEM to pioneer a new way to discover…
Market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens Credit: © 2001 MBARI Acoustic tools reveal hotspots of ocean life in scattered places. Ocean predators cannot survive on average concentrations…
Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that form tiny limestone plates, called coccoliths, around their single cells. The shape and size of coccoliths varies according to the…
Researchers release an Argo float into the Southern Ocean. Credit: Isa Rosso/SOCCOM A change in the Southern Ocean, the region absorbing the most human-induced warming…
A chimney structure from the Sea Cliff hydrothermal vent field located more than 8,800 feet (2,700 meters) below the sea’s surface at the submarine boundary…
Climate Change Will Destroy Environments, Create New Ones, and Undermine Efforts To Protect Sea Life
Climate Change Will Destroy Environments, Create New Ones, and Undermine Efforts To Protect Sea Life
A healthy coral reef in 2012 in the Northern Mariana Islands. A year later, the reef was dead. The reef is a symbol of how…
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram…
Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among several championed today by nine distinguished international…
A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began sticking more persistently to their beds, triggering cycles of longer ice ages. Here, ice…
Geoscientist Georgia Hole used tree rings to retrace the paths of driftwood, once frozen in sea ice, as it made its way through the Arctic.…
The view from the DC-8 research aircraft as flies through the marine boundary layer, the portion of the atmosphere close to the ocean’s surface where…
This image of Earth was compiled using tens of thousands of images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Thanks to the satellite era, we are better…
Measurements of light intensity (white lines) and zooplankton abundance (black line) with ocean depth (z, in meters) show that when cloud shadows prevent sunlight from…
Ice capped and snow-covered mountains of coastal west Greenland. (April 2015). Credit: Matthew Osman © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Greenland may be best known for…
A right whale breaches the surface. Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing…
Postdoctoral researcher Adriane Lam and Assistant Professor Molly Patterson making sense of new geochemical data obtained from planktic foraminifera. Credit: Binghamton University Ocean currents embody…
Aerial view of Severnaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic. Glaciers and ice caps in two archipelagos in the Russian Arctic are losing enough meltwater to…