Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

The impact of hurricanes when they travel over land, or when they affect ships or oil-drilling platforms, are quite well understood. But these huge cyclones also stir up the ocean itself, with ...

The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...

With a global average pH of 8.1 ocean water is slightly alkaline. But the good news is that our bodies can handle it – ...

Mars might hold enough subsurface water to cover its surface in a global ocean between 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) ...

Billions of years ago, our planet did not have the deep blue oceans we admire today. Instead, they were actually […] ...

Marine biologist Fernando Trujillo has spent a lifetime working with the endangered creatures, which offer a window into the ...

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

The rise of mobile saunas is also closely tied to the increased popularity of cold plunges and cold-water swimming. Typically ...

Concerns have been brewing in recent days as word of large-scale layoffs at NOAA and its sister branch the National Weather ...

Pacific sleeper shark in research ‘sling’—allows scientists easy access to tag and study the animal at the surface of the ...