In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic ...

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Iskra’s glitter worm and the Elven abyss tunicate among top species recognized by the World Register of Marine Species Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of ...

The ocean naturally absorbs CO₂ from the atmosphere, acting as a carbon sink. This capacity is determined by a natural chemical property referred to as ocean alkalinity. If the alkalinity increases, ...

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine last summer, making it the first federally permitted test of whether adding ...

Dal research teams are receiving more than $7.3M in Canada Foundation for Innovation support to expand labs and tools driving breakthroughs in water resilience, ocean science, marine tracking, and dig ...

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, ...

NDTV spent nearly 30 hours onboard India's ocean research vessel ORV Sagar Manjusha, witnessing live scientific experiments in the Arabian Sea and getting an inside look at how researchers study the ...

Marine passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has provided petabytes of data, whose proper utilization is necessary to promote species protection and lower noise in protected places. Recently, a Big Earth ...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...