As summer warms Istanbul's waters, the megacity's authorities are having to battle a noxious algal bloom dubbed "sea snot".

As some of the worst fires in Los Angeles history swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods in January ...

Ten girls from a riverside summer camp are still unaccounted for as authorities say they are doing everything they can to ...

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

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Seabed-origin oil spills pose distinct challenges in marine pollution management due to their complex transport dynamics and ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the decline of the region's sea ice.

Scientists find rising ocean salinity in Antarctica, reversing decades-long trends and accelerating sea ice loss.

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Science Media Centre. Fresher, cooler surface waters had helped sea ice expand for more than thirty years, but the new satellite data shows this reversed a decad ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink ...