Earth’s oceans may not have always been as brilliantly blue as they are today. In fact, there may have been a time when they ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Grab your scuba diving gear or board one of the glass-bottomed boats for an aquatic adventure at the nation’s first underwater park in the Florida Keys. Gaze at ...

A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment ...

As the sea ice melts, the dark blue ocean water is exposed, which absorbs the sun’s heat - warming the oceans further and melting more ice. As more ice melts, the quicker ice will melt in the ...

When highly reflective snow and ice give way to dark blue ocean, the same amount of the sun’s energy that was bounced back into space is absorbed by water instead, accelerating the pace of ...

When highly reflective snow and ice give way to dark blue ocean, the same amount of the sun's energy that was bounced back into space is absorbed by water instead, accelerating the pace of global ...

When highly reflective snow and ice give way to dark blue ocean, energy from the sun that would have bounced back into space is absorbed by the water instead, raising the water's temperature and ...