A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

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 ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

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 ...

How hot is the ocean? Sea surface temperatures in many areas outside the polar regions have been warmer than normal since March.

Global sea surface temperatures rose sharply in March and continued to rise during much of April, and oceanographers and climate scientists are watching with trepidation. “There has been a ...

To call what’s happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

The sea surface temperature over which Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified was about 1.8°C (3.2°F) warmer than normal (based on the 1991-2020 average).

Sea surface temperatures in Celsius across the North Atlantic on June 14, 2023. Warmer colors indicate warmer water. The sea surface temperatures off Africa are far hotter than normal for the ...

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 ...