Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, ...
A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the centuries ahead, even as the planet continues to warm.
The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.
Earth's ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to temper the impact of climate change but increasing ocean ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...
The concentration of salt in the ocean doesn’t change much, so plant and animal life don’t have anything to worry about, ...
Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.
Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...
Sharks are often imagined as massive, powerful predators cruising through open water, but not all sharks are great ...