In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, ...

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Los Angeles collected ash, air and water samples as fire blazed on the hills before them in January.

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For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its ...

On a wave-battered rock in the northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

But lately, as I read news about deadly heat waves and disappearing glaciers, those titles are beginning to seem almost naive ...

Crustaceans, a small but mighty animal classification group of invertebrates, can be found scuttling across the ocean floor, ...

The organizers delayed the event’s start from 9 to 11 a.m. and shortened it from three hours to just two. But even in that ...

Ancient oceans were green due to their high iron content Cyanobacteria adapted to green light for photosynthesis Climate change is increasing phytoplankton, altering ocean color ...

Does that mean the ocean was once green? Yes, probably. An intriguing study published in Nature analyzed water chemistry in the Earth’s oceans during the Archaean eon, a critical point in our ...

You can learn more about the CFC tracer program here. Through the WOCE and CLIVAR programs CFC concentrations have been measured all over the world. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: NASA’s Ocean Ecology Laboratory ...