Bottom-dwelling fish such as Atlantic cod are often found near structures such as shipwrecks. Credit: NOAA Study suggests reducing fishing and addressing environmental changes would…
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For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain data from underneath Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday Glacier.” They find that the…
This map from the IQOE-endorsed JOMOPANS project shows the difference between the total noise level and the natural noise level with differences up to 30…
Dr. Sebastian Rosier at Pine Island Glacier in 2015. Credit: Dr. Sebastian Rosier Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in…
Lakes form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet each summer as the weather warms. They exist for weeks or months but can drain…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
Seagrass, akin to a marine forest in terms of the biodiversity found within it, spreads across Tomales Bay in northern California. Credit: Melissa Ward, UC…
More research is needed on the environmental impact of sunscreen on the world’s coral reefs, scientists at the University of York say. The concerns over…
Moraines constructed during repeated advance-retreat cycles of one of the glaciers that extended out from the Southern Alps in New Zealand during the last ice…
Inferred reactive probability currents of marine debris into garbage patches (red boxes). Black boxes indicate coastal boxes from which those currents emerge. The color of…
A compilation of sea butterflies “Limacina retroversa” captured during the AMT27 ocean expedition. Credit: Lisette Mekkes & Katja Peijnenburg, Naturalis The oceans are becoming more…
Greenland glaciers 2018. Credit: NIOZ, Kim Sauter A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years. During ice ages, the global mean sea…
This map of the Earth shows the spatial pattern of temperature variance by percentage. The most variance is seen in the tropics with less at…
Fish fecal pellets collected from the Santa Barbara Channel off California. Credit: Grace Saba New research has shown that carbon in feces, respiration, and other…
Artist’s rendering of potentially habitable exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech) A study by the University of Southampton gives a new perspective on why our planet…
Plankton-feeding fishes often dominate the fish assemblage on oceanic coral reefs. Credit: Dr. Christina Skinner Study reveals open ocean waters once assumed to be unproductive…
(Left) Predicted change of ocean surface temperature in 2050-2099 relative to 1950-1999 using an ensemble of climate models. (Right) Predicted change in amplitude of rainfall…
Marine litter ten years after the great 2011 tsunami in Japan. Credit: JAMSTEC [De S. Chiba] The Long Journey of Litter to the Seafloor The…
A scientist on the French Antarctic resupply vessel L’Astrolabe drops an XBT probe to measure the temperature of the ocean, to a depth of 800…
A humpback whale. The songs of fin whales can be used for seismic imaging of the oceanic crust, providing scientists a novel alternative to conventional…