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

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

Submarine canyons around Antarctica tend to have less sea ice, higher sea surface temperatures, and more biomass such as ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

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

Epizoic diatoms, microscopic algae that inhabit the surfaces of living hosts, have emerged as a focal point in studies of host–microbe interactions in marine reptiles, particularly sea turtles.

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

Blooms of coccolithophores can also be beneficial for the local environment. For example, their calcium carbonate scales can act as a natural buffer, "dissolving under certain conditions and helping ...

Increasing environmental events driven by climate change and human activity exacerbate allergy and asthma conditions, further compounded by exposure to persistent pollutants like per-and ...

Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years. And some of these events have become so intense that scientists have coined a new term: super ...