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

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

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

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

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

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

As summer warms Istanbul's waters, the megacity's authorities are having to battle a noxious algal bloom dubbed "sea snot".

Computers decode the language of the ocean, revealing its complex patterns and transforming how we understand marine ...

Traditionally, melting sea ice is expected to freshen ocean surface waters, as freshwater from the ice dilutes the salty sea.

We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out […] ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

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