oceans

It can be difficult to comprehend, but the ocean accounts for approximately 71 percent of our planet's surface area. The earth's oceans are largely responsible for the weather, air quality, ...

An independent climate scientist recently cast doubts on a major ocean warming study, causing the researchers to pull ...

There's a potential solution for ocean pollution.

For the first time, researchers attempted to measure all the material leaving and entering a mountain range over ...

Warming ocean temperatures found a third of a mile below the surface, in a dark ocean where not ...

One proposed way of dealing with climate change includes fertilising the oceans with iron.

Materials in the thin film on the ocean’s surface may affect ice cloud formation and thus climate on ...

A period of abrupt climate change 12,000 years ago occurred rapidly in northern latitudes but much more gradually ...

One of Canada’s top marine biologists is comparing the harm wrought by the accumulation of plastics in the ...

Researchers for the first time have used seismic sensors to track meltwater flowing through glaciers and into the ...

To discover what gives clouds above the Southern Ocean their brightness, scientists took a close look at tiny ...

Mountain climbers typically carry tanks of oxygen to help them reach the summit.

June 8 is World Oceans Day. In Canada, it's a time to celebrate the rich marine life in ...

The success of corals that adapt to survive in the world’s hottest sea could actually contribute to their ...

A new study attempts to place a value of goods and services afforded by the ocean, estimating that ...

Boobies, like albatrosses, can be forgiven for feeding plastic to their chicks, because they think it’s just another ...

Eight million tonnes. That's how much plastic we're tossing into the oceans every year! University of Georgia environmental ...

Plastic resin production has grown 647 percent since 1975, this is used to make one time use products ...

Bureo is an innovative skateboard company making decks from recycled drift nets off the coast of Chile. Find ...

Contrary to popular belief, the apparent increase in blooms of jellyfish around the world may simply be a ...

Thorny seahorses, Hippocampus histrix, inhabit sandy and reef substrates in the Western Pacific.

The painted frogfish, Antennarius pictus, is also known as the painted anglerfish because it uses a lure to ...

Leaf scorpionfish are found in various parts of the world, including the tropical Indo-Pacific and the Red Sea.

Juvenile frogfish are less than 1 cm long, almost the size of a thumb-nail.

Razorfish, Aeoliscus strigatus, inhabit seagrass beds and coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific, and spend their whole lives in ...

The demise of the dinosaurs, thought to have been caused by an asteroid, wasn’t the only mass extinction ...

Some marine animals that dwell in dark habitats about half a mile below the surface can see blue ...