Then we cast off into Halifax Harbour, Canada, surveying the turquoise waters for signs of an unusual test: could we use the ...

Picture the vast expanse of ocean you've seen in postcards or vacation photos - that brilliant blue stretching endlessly toward the horizon. Yet something profound is happening beneath those familiar ...

View of Miami skyline including Bird Key, a private island on Biscayne Bay that is now for sale, upsetting environmentalists because developers could build on the island, displacing all the birds, on ...

Last month's sea surface temperatures were the second-warmest for any April on record, reflecting the emergence of El Niño.

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

On a special episode (first released on March 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast:What if we can slow climate change by giving the ocean an antacid? It’s called ocean alkalinity enhancement and it’s ...

Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle. A recent study reveals that these populations are shrinking at an alarming rate due to ocean warming ...

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study suggests that modern poets may be faced with a slightly different palette.