Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out at it? It turns ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

Marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and longer-lasting as humanity continues to release planet-warming gases into our ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

Earth's oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...