New research within the PELAgIO ECOWind project has revealed how offshore wind farms can influence ocean temperatures and ...

An ambitious research programme in northwestern pacific is striving to understand the many facets of the ocean — and the ways ...

Publishing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers at Kyushu University report that they have developed a new method to more accurately analyze the distribution of small ...

As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal, ...

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the atmosphere’s excess heat trapped by human-emitted greenhouse gases. It plays a vital role in mitigating the climate crisis and our health relies on that of the ...

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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 ...

A number of environmental parameters can have strong impacts on mine warfare operations. These factors, discussed below, can affect operations directly, as with the influence of currents on diver ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. The Palisades Fire destroyed thousands ...

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 ...

We’ve barely explored the ocean’s floor. This new 3D map offers 10,000 new spots to look at next. Composite satellite visualizations of the Earth. National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has ...