Cancer treatment often sounds distant and technical, so stories about it can feel hard to enter. Yet, everyday curiosity ...

For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas were spending long stretches in the dim “twilight zone,” yet the known prey ...

In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California ...

Dehradun: For decades, scientists had linked carbon storage in the ocean to phytoplankton — microscopic plants that absorbed ...

Scientists have discovered that major upwelling systems are intensifying ocean acidification faster than expected, creating growing risks for marine life and coastal economies. Credit: Shutterstock ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

The waters of Puget Sound are more susceptible to ocean acidification and sliding faster into dangerous territory for its marine wildlife than other places around the world, a new study shows. Should ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

You’re the product of stability on a planetary scale. Around 12,000 years ago, Earth warmed from an ice age into the relatively consistent climate that allowed humans to adopt agriculture, literally ...

Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They’re older than the first trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They’ve seen and been through it all — but the ...

Sharks' teeth—some of nature's sharpest and most formidable weapons—may not withstand the effects of future ocean acidification, new research suggests. Scientists at the Heinrich Heine University ...