Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

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By night, it becomes one of Dewey’s most popular bars, famous for its Orange Crush – a refreshing concoction of ...

Stockton Rush, 61, piloted the submersible, accompanied by British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, his son Suleman Dawood, 19, and French explorer and ...

Cape Henlopen State Park Beach in Lewes, Delaware is that escape button personified in sand, surf, and surprisingly rich ...

For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long ...

The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some ...

In the northeast Atlantic, home to the most concentrated stretch of this radioactive marine waste, some 200,000 barrels lie at a depth of 4,000 metres.

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, bathymetric features, and boundary currents shape ideal conditions for ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface water northward and returns cold, dense water to the south at depth. For years, ...