The continued warming of ocean waters threatens marine life, a new study demonstrates. According to the Guardian, new research on the effects of rising sea temperatures found that the warming of the ...

When marine organisms die and sink, billions of tons of organic and inorganic carbon are carried downward each year. The ...

Scientists found worms living inside a glass sponge castle - and that's just one of 38 new species.

The world's oceans are shifting beneath us in ways that researchers say have no real precedent in the modern record. The ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Bacteria hitchhiking on marine snow can dissolve its calcium carbonate ballast, slowing the particles’ descent.

The grant, the largest of its kind since Scripps joined UCSD in 1960, will go toward research in several distinct areas.

Huge thanks to Globe reporter Kate Selig for updating us on ocean geoengineering research by Cape Cod’s Woods Hole ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floor. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the ...

Imagined” voyage in 2027 aboard the Le Lyrial will feature ocean scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), an independent ocean science organization. Departing from Ushuaia, ...

Wind howls and waves roar as storms rage over the open ocean. But even as gusts reach hurricane strength and swells rise as high as six-story buildings, the violent effects of these storms only reach ...