The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

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

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

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable ...

Meteorologists point out that hurricanes and flood-making storms possess extraordinary amounts of energy that humans can't ...

A new handheld microscope lets scientists monitor coral health in real time, underwater, without harming reefs.

New advancements in satellite technology are transforming how we understand the role oceans play in regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere. While the oceans have long served as a ...

Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba, poses a rare but deadly threat in warm, untreated freshwater during summer.

There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are ...