A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Foraminifera are among the most widely used biological archives in paleoceanographic and environmental studies. Their calcareous tests preserve a wealth of ...

Forest fires have historically been viewed as catastrophic events. Thanks to climate change, forest fires are now a threat ...

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study ...

A striking image of a massive bloom of phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms that often float near the surface of the ocean—has been captured from space in the Gulf of Maine. Coccolithophores ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other.

Scientists have made the first comprehensive marine wildlife size database to help scientists better understand ocean ...

A new study from Duke showed oceans are getting greener at the poles and bluer in the subtropical regions, like off the SC ...

The marine planktonic diatoms Thalassiosiraoceanica sp. nov. and T. partheneia Journal of Phycology 19:220-229. Hasle, G.R. & Evensen, D.L. 1976. Brackish water and freshwater species of the diatom ...

Something wonderful is happening in the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt right now. Ten undergraduate students from ...

A global ocean color shift is underway, with greener waters near the poles and bluer seas in the tropics, impacting many ...