Melting in cracks and crevasses where ice enters the ocean at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is faster than scientists thought. Credit: NASA Data come from an…
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Nodules on the seafloor at the study site, photographed by an underwater camera. Credit: YAO Huiqiang Antarctic bottom water (AABW) covers more than two-thirds of…
The Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere-Space observatory concept. The upper-right-hand globe shows the extensive network of existing Fibre-Optic (FO) cables (yellow lines). The lower-left zoomed inset illustrates the key…
Globorataloides hexagonus shell recovered from a deep-sea sediment core in the tropical Pacific ocean. Credit: Catherine Davis Scientists have mapped out oceanic “dead zones” from…
Seeding the oceans with nano-scale fertilizers could create a much-needed, substantial carbon sink. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Iron-based fertilizer…
ARCTIC2018 expedition. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Andreas Rogge Scientists discover a new pathway for the movement of carbon-rich materials from productive Arctic coastal waters to the…
Rogue waves are abnormally large, unpredictable, and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be incredibly dangerous to even large ships. Extreme waves can be generated…
The formation of sea ice is an important part of the Earth’s climate system, as it reflects sunlight back into the atmosphere and helps to…
From April to May 2019, the coral reefs near the French Polynesian island of Moorea in the central South Pacific Ocean suffered severe and prolonged…
A temperature map of the Pacific Ocean for December 1993 showing a cold (blue) tongue of surface water stretching westward along the equator from the…
This study is the culmination of 20 years of research by Brad Seibel on vertical migrators that has included scores of dives like this one.…
The new findings suggest that marine microbes use photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is used by marine bacteria to take in carbon dioxide. Scientists may be able to…
According to new research, the evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions. Geologists find parallels between ancient, global-scale extinction events…
Rogue waves are greater than twice the size of the surrounding waves. Extreme nonlinear wave group dynamics in directional wave states. Understanding the unexpected nature…
The thriving coral reefs off the coast of Isla San Pedrito, west of the Costa Rica mainland, in October 2006. Credit: Maria Marta Chavarria Cold…
The findings indicate that, before the Little Ice Age, the North Atlantic climate system lost resilience and destabilized, potentially forcing it to “tip” into a…
The Mediterranean Sea was hit by a major marine heatwave. Many parts of Europe saw record-breaking temperatures over the summer. However, it wasn’t just the…
Southern Right Whales in the Great Australian Bight. Credit: Dr. Kerstin Bilgmann A new twist in marine upwellings at a well-known feeding ground Oceanographers have…
When outfitted with a groundbreaking “laboratory in a can” to sample environmental DNA (eDNA), nimble robots like MBARI’s long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (LRAUV) can expand…
200 million-year-old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea…