On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

Because salt water draws up heat from the deep ocean and makes it harder for sea ice to regrow - as well as bringing up ...

Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

This is an ocean planet. And every company—whether it realizes it or not—depends on the biodiversity, food systems, and ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

The more we explore and protect the ocean, the more we benefit, whether in the form of economic returns or scientific ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...