Oceanography

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as 'milky seas' could help scientists soon predict when the odd ocean glows occur.

DOGE cuts to NOAA Fisheries aren't making anything more efficient — they're stripping the ability of fishers to adapt their businesses to changing conditions. Similar impacts are being felt across different disciplines, and the U.S. science community must choose whether to look inward, hoping for better days, or to fight back.

Domoic acid outbreak killing and sickening marine mammals and birds along Southern California coast.

JAMBIANI, Zanzibar, Mar 05 (IPS) - In the early morning, as the tide pulls away, Zulfa Abdallah ties her scarf tightly around her head. She adjusts her goggles, places a snorkel across her forehead, and wades into the chest-deep waters off Jambiani village in Zanzibar. The Indian Ocean is her livelihood now, its waves offering a lifeline to women like her who confront challenges of poverty and climate change.

By coincidence, a Scripps Institute of Oceanography research ship pulled up to Los Angeles as the deadly wildfires were burning thousands of homes, incinerating plastic, paint, asbestos and car batteries.

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

This strange sea creature stumped scientists for 20 years. Here's what it really is.

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011.

These companies are trying to make the oceans a better carbon sink

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded three-year postdoctoral fellowships to 12 early-career researchers to enable them to...

A 1 trillion tonne iceberg has broken away in the Southern Ocean and is drifting towards the Atlantic.

Named Bathydevius caudactylus, the new species is bioluminescent and represents the third independent origin of bioluminescence among sea slugs.

Dr. Inia Soto Ramos became fascinated by the mysteries of the ocean while growing up in Puerto Rico's mountains. Today, she works at NASA as an oceanographer and data manager, where she can uncover these enigmas from space.

My name is Juan Torres-Pérez. I am a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Earth Sciences division, biospheric sciences branch. I am the PI

My name is Samuel Suleiman and I am the Executive Director of Sociedad Ambiente Marino: an NGO in Puerto Rico that has been working for the last 25 years to

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

Push for "data sovereignty" could reshape how scientists share information

A deep-sea expedition made the surprising discovery of a previously unknown ecosystem in which animals such as giant tube worms thrive beneath hydrothermal...

The latest novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Overstory" explores artificial intelligence and the race to save the oceans.

A mucus drag on sinking marine snow may have big biogeochemical implications