Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep ...

In 2025, the ocean absorbed an extra 23 zettajoules of heat energy in 2025, breaking the ocean heat content record for the ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Abstract: Ocean color remote sensing has advanced over the past 40 years, with algorithms primarily rooted in radiative transfer theory to estimate various ocean color properties. To address the ...

As Earth warms due to climate change, oceans are heating up, becoming more acidic, and losing oxygen. These changes threaten ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

A United Nations agreement for the “conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity” in the open oceans has ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

Oregon State University research into marine protected areas plays a crucial role in the historic High Seas Treaty that goes ...

In August 2026, Gradone and Selden will lead a 28-day expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (too), a state-of-the-art research ...

Rising spot rates are accompanying the strong pre-Lunar New Year demand, with all indexes showing steep increases since early ...