Ocean water can be used in extreme cases to fight wildfires, but freshwater is preferred due to equipment corrosion, soil damage, and logistical challenges.

There’s something absolutely magical about jellyfish. The way they float, the swish of their tentacles, the shimmer of their ...

Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon Scientists are still uncovering new details about how the ocean absorbs and recycles carbon.

A customer admires flamingos made of PVC pipe for sale during the Peter Anderson Festival in Ocean Springs in 2022. Nearly 400 vendors will offer treasures and good things to eat.

Daytona Beach city commissioners bought a half-acre oceanfront lot south of the Main Street Pier. They hope a new hotel is built there.

A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash ...

But sea ice also has a key role in enabling the ocean to draw excess heat from the atmosphere — and this mechanism is particularly relevant for the Southern Ocean.

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor ...

Firefighters normally prefer to use fresh water, but given the growing fires and issues with water pressure in Pacific Palisades, the decision appears to have been made to draw from the Pacific.