An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have ...

A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Since this record-keeping began in the early 1980s—the other squiggly lines are previous years—the global average for the world’s ocean surfaces has oscillated seasonally between 19.7° and ...

The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in December 2022 and developed by NASA and France’s Centre National D’Etudes ...

Recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data shows that sea-surface temperatures globally are well above normal for this time of year — last month had the warmest May ocean ...

How hot is the ocean? Sea surface temperatures in many areas outside the polar regions have been warmer than normal since March. In April and May, they were highest on record for those months in a ...

El Niño, a pattern of warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator, ... Sea surface temperatures in the Gulf were 3.5 to 7 degrees warmer than average this winter.

For nearly a year now, a bizarre heating event has been unfolding across the world’s oceans. In March 2023, global sea surface temperatures started shattering record daily highs, and have stayed ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just “scratching the surface,” to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists ...