Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters.

Hidden warm-water traps beneath Antarctica may be melting the continent’s ice far faster than scientists realized.

Warm ocean water is moving closer to Antarctica, raising concerns that ice shelves could melt from below and accelerate sea ...

A close-up microscope view reveals the hidden world living inside ocean water, showing tiny organisms and details invisible ...

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research which used radar data from space to ...

Patrick Megonigal, Associate Director of Research, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center A firefighting plane dumps water on one of the fires in the Los Angeles area in January 2025. Brian van der ...

A local water district is proposing an ambitious plan to turn ocean water into drinking water, and while the idea of a “Blue Water Farm” sounds promising, some environmental groups say that ocean ...

The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published February 3 in Nature ...

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