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 ...

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 ...

The ocean has absorbed about 30% of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities since the Industrial Revolution, significantly slowing the pace of climate change. But as emissions continue to rise, ...

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 ...

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.