Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands eruption in 2006. Volcanism is one of the main carbon dioxide sources in the long-term carbon cycle balanced by weathering sinks,…
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Stanford researcher Ryan Searcy collects water samples from a tide pool at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, in Moss Beach, California. Credit: Meghan Shea Using water…
Full moon in Tromsø, Norway. Credit: Maja Sojtaric High tides may even counter the potential threat of submarine methane release from the warming Arctic. It…
New research led by BirdLife International, the University of East Anglia (UEA) and British Antarctic Survey highlights how a proposed network of marine protected areas…
New study unravels long-standing climate mystery and provides insight into how our planet may change in the future. Scientists claim to have found the “missing…
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests. Scientists used geological samples to estimate ocean oxygen during a…
A Galápagos Toroise. Credit: Alexander Forryan New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall…
An international research team that included three scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location…
Sea level could rise higher than current estimates by 2100 if climate change is unchallenged, according to a new assessment. Its authors say understanding the…
New study suggests waters will become more turbulent as Arctic loses summertime ice. Eddies are often seen as the weather of the ocean. Like large-scale…
This diatom species, Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, is a floating algae that is abundant in the Antarctic Ocean and was the major species in the samples collected…
The Pacific Ocean’s currents support a diverse ecosystem, seen here from space with green indicating blooms of photosynthesizing plankton. Warmer currents during the ice age…
Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. Credit: Maoz Fine A paper to be published in Frontiers in Marine Science on December 15 is…
CSIRO’s RV Investigator. Credit: CSIRO Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere. A fleet…
A new study helps explain how and why columns of methane gas can stream out of seafloor formations known as methane hydrates. Credit: Image courtesy…
Water from Canada’s Mackenzie River enters the blue Arctic Ocean in July 2012. White areas in the top half of the photo are largely sea…
Illustration showing a multilayer conceptual model of the transport mechanism of fresh groundwater from onshore to offshore in Hawai‘i. Credit: University of Hawai’i Twice as…
A band of clouds in an atmospheric river extending from South America to the Antarctic sea ice zone on September 16, 2017. Credit: NASA Warm,…
Past carbon dioxide concentrations (at left) compared to possible future emissions scenarios (at right): The rate of current emissions is much faster — occurring over…
Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin are among a four-strong team of principal investigators spearheading a new €10.4 million project funded by the European Research…