Commercial vessels, particularly fishing boats, are known sources of ocean plastic, losing up to a million tons of plastic ...

Ocean heat, not air temperature, may decide Antarctica’s fate as new models predict widespread ice shelf loss by 2300.

The Southern Ocean can release stored heat during cooling, creating short-term warming. This discovery shows climate recovery ...

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean science, philanthropic, and stakeholder organizations—led by the Woods Hole ...

Explore the ocean's hidden role in climate regulation. Learn how a powerful nutrient feedback loop and carbon storage on the ...

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

By 2030, the iconic ISS – where the world's astronauts have lived, worked and gazed upon the cosmos for more than two decades ...

This shift in Earth’s tectonic tempo had profound implications above ground. With less volcanic carbon dioxide heating the ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through ...