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An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering…

Scientists have discovered how a chemical in the cells of marine organisms enables them to survive the high pressures found in the deep oceans. The deeper…

Plastics, now ubiquitous in the modern world, have become a rising threat to human and environmental health. Around the planet, evidence of plastic pollution…

Lethal Tides tells the story of pioneering oceanic researcher Mary Sears and her leading role in creating one of the most important intelligence gathering…

Some 66 million years ago, when the land was ruled by dinosaurs, the oceans used to be infested with giant marine predators called mosasaurs. And, now,…

Some 66 million years ago, when the land was ruled by dinosaurs, the oceans used to be infested with giant marine predators called mosasaurs. And, now,…

Many coastal and island communities, like Hawaii, have a vast, renewable energy…

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now…

Credit: University of Toronto A new, low-cost "optofluidic"…

Scientists have revealed that human activity — and not natural climatic variations — is causing systemic warming in a pool of water present in the northeast…