Evolving species in nature are exciting discoveries. Scientists discover new species during ocean exploration: 'We also hope ...

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been ...

Scientists predict the Pacific Ocean will vanish in 200 million years, forming a new supercontinent named Amasia and ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto The director of the European Academies Science Advisory Council has ... one impact will be the acidification of the ocean – a reduction in the pH of the ocean over ...

Though plentiful in arid regions, most sand is not viable for commercial use or construction. Desert sand, whipped by years ...

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...

Human-induced climate change is causing shifts in the world's largest ocean current and westerly wind systems also seen ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

a senior research scientist and zooplankton ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, showing that the clay flocs zooplankton eat and expel do indeed sink faster.

Have you ever wondered how a sea is different to an ocean? The two are often used interchangeably, but they have many ...

The technique, known as ocean alkalinity enhancement, usually involves dissolving acid-neutralizing rocks in the ocean, ...