Climate change is changing the ocean’s color
The change reflects significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems
Tag: oceans
Massive underwater waves disrupt carbon storage in the oceans
They are as tall as 500 meters.
This battery-free wireless underwater camera could help reveal the oceans’ hidden secrets
The camera device uses sound waves to power itself and transmit data.
The three global agreements that could change the future of the oceans
The situation for the oceans is critical. Could these agreements provide the desperately-needed protection?
How many oceans are there in the world
Since 2021, a new ocean has been added by cartographers, bringing the tally to five grand oceanic basins.
Scientists unveil most precise map yet of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean floor
The map covers 48 million square kilometers (185 million square miles) and details a new deepest point
World’s lakes are losing oxygen rapidly as the planet warms
This is bad news for water quality and biodiversity
Ocean trawling doesn’t just destroy ecosystems. It also releases massive emissions
Maybe just... stop doing it?
Ocean plastic pollution is much worse than we thought and ends back in our plates
The extent of plastic pollution in our ocean is stunning.
Changing laundry washing habits could prevent a third of microfiber pollution in the ocean
Shorter wash cycles and cold water can reduce the amount of microfibers that end up in the ocean by 30%.
Whales enjoying the sound of silence as COVID-19 pandemic reduces ship traffic
Deep-water probes now record fewer decibels of noise as the coronavirus has put a halt on maritime traffic.
Ever got a ‘phantom sting’ while swimming? This might explain it
Jellyfish can sting swimmers and their prey with 'mucus grenades'
Neanderthals dived underwater for shells to use as tools
The closest extinct human relative was more similar to us than initially thought.
World’s oceans have warmed 450% faster than in 1987
In the past three decades, oceans absorbed as much energy as 3.6 billion Hiroshima-sized atom bombs.
Why is 2020 is a key year for the future of the planet’s environment
Governments have the chance to increase ambition next year
Climate heating is sucking the oxygen out of the oceans
There are about 700 ocean sites with low levels of oxygen, an IUCN report presented at COP25 reported.
What are marine protected areas? An explanation
MPAs can help protect marine and coastal biodiversity
Oceans are filled up with abandoned fishing gear, report warns
Every year more than 640.000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps are dumped in the sea
Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs triggered a sharp rise in ocean acidity
Researchers found that the extinction event from 66 million years ago coincided with a sharp drop in the pH levels ...
There’s a newly found responsible for ocean plastic waste — merchant ships
Despite initially thought to come from land, most plastic debris in the sea can be linked to merchant ships, according ...
Global warming has affected world’s oceans and frozen regions, UN report warns
The ocean is warmer, more acidic, less productive, and rising.
Magnetic coils, the new way to deal with microplastics
Flowing through rivers and oceans, plastic waste has become an important environmental threat across the globe.
Plastics are ubiquitous in the deep ocean — even in the Mariana Trench
Plastic is everywhere -- literally.
The number of ocean heatwaves has risen more than 50% since 1925, threatening to collapse marine ecosystems
These are not the waves we're looking for.
Martian oceans may have been aided by massive volcanoes, research suggests
A song of fire and water, on Mars.
Microbeads: Contaminating Our Fish and Sea Salt?
Microbeads are slowly killing off oceanic wildlife -- and that's affecting us as well.
Whales as Ecological Engineers
Given the sheer size of whales, it should be no surprise that they make some very important contributions to ecosystems.
Coral bleaching has been captured on video for the first time
They don't seem to be having a good time.
In 18 years, man-made heat doubled in oceans
After they studied how much man-made heat got sucked by the world's oceans in the past 150 years, researchers found ...
CO2 in the atmosphere heralds imminent food chain collapse — and it’s gonna start in the oceans
Bad news for us -- and fish.
NASA research put together into a video showing how the ocean’s garbage patches formed over the last 35 years
Aaah, the ocean. The true final frontier. Full of wonderful and exciting things, such as strange fish, stranger crustaceans, beautiful ...
Global Scientists Shocked by True Scale of Ocean Warming
When talking about global warming, we often tend to think about droughts, water shortage and desertification. But we must not ...
Digital atlas shows oceans’ iron levels
Researchers have developed a three dimensional atlas which shows the concentrations of iron dissolved in the world's oceans. This monumental ...
Map of Earth’s Salinity released by NASA’s Aquarius
Earlier this year, NASA launched the Argentine SAC-D satellite that has a number of instruments whose sole goal is that ...
Ocean life threatened by mass extinction
Climate change and over-fishing are held responsible for the swift collapse of coral reefs and the propagation of mass extinction ...
Underwater… lakes !
Boy I've gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the ...
Blue whales singing lower every year, baffled scientists say
Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have ...
Hundreds of icebergs drifting towards New Zealand
According to the Australian Antarctic Division, at least a hundred Antarctic icebergs are currently drifting towards New Zealand at a ...
17650 Species that have never seen sunlight
The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance ...