Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

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A new study shows ocean damage nearly doubles the true cost of carbon pollution and reshapes climate decisions.

The significance of deep-sea virology and its impacts on global climate and biogeochemical structures is not unknown, though its importance might be understated Despite their tiny size, viruses have a ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Fishermen have welcomed the findings of a panel set up to review feedback on government plans to manage the ocean environment. The Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda also applauded Walter Roban, the ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...

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A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...