Plankton Diversity: A Key to Gauge Ocean Health, According to New Study

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 11.25.2019 19:27 PM

One of the papers focused on the diversity of plankton in the ocean and another focused on the gene expression of this species to see how they adapt to the changing environmental conditions.

Survival of the Fittest: Jellyfish can Survive Global Warming

11.08.2019 08:28 AM

The jellyfish was able to survive even the harshest conditions and amid climate change, this underwater floater remain unbothered.

Ocean Acidification Threats Emerge From Southern Seas

08.28.2019 09:06 AM

The oceans absorb more than 40% of the world’s carbon emissions, making it truly a hotspot for acidification.

The World Without Oceans: What Does Our Fate Say?

08.26.2019 08:54 AM

The vast expanse of the ocean waters cover three fourths of the planet, but with industrialization setting in, the waters might disappear.

Teenager and the Ocean Win Big with Microplastic Extraction Project

08.14.2019 08:13 AM

An Irish teenager may have discovered a way to save our oceans from microplastics. Fionn Ferreira is an 18-year old from West Cork, Ireland who was recently awarded 50,000 dollars in educational funding by Google Science Fair for his project that successfully removes microplastics from water.

Magnetic Coils Created To Break Down Plastics In Ocean

08.13.2019 05:51 AM

There are more plastics in the ocean than the stars in the whole of the Milky Way galaxy. Nobody thought that the ocean would be filled with plastic that reached the depth of the ocean floors.

Ocean Bacteria May Cause Serious Skin Problems

06.29.2019 11:21 AM

Ocean water may look clean and safe, but it comes with minute bacteria that can cause serious skin concerns even after ten minutes of exposure.

Oceans Start to Slow Down on Carbon Dioxide Absorption

06.28.2019 10:15 AM

The changing method in CO2 absorption might affect the ocean's ability to buffer climate change.

Giant Plastic Trap Set Up In the Great Pacific Again

06.25.2019 15:52 PM

A floating device that has been specifically to catch all plastic waste floating in the ocean has been deployed in the Great Pacific. Now, it is out there again in an attempt to clean up what looks like a huge island of plastic garbage swirling between the islands of Hawaii and California.

Freshwater Reservoir Discovered Beneath The Ocean

06.25.2019 07:31 AM

Geologists have discovered a giant reservoir of freshwater underneath the North Atlantic ocean. While the size of this cache was rather surprising, researchers say that it shouldn't be unexpected. It was in the 1970s when first signals of the freshwater reservoir was noticed but it was not until recently that people suspected it to be a rather big one. It is trapped in porous rock that is suspected to run the entire length of the North-East side of the US.

Ocean Hues To Change By 2100

06.25.2019 07:26 AM

Have you seen the stunning aquamarine color of the Caribbean Sea along the borders of the Seven Mile Beach of the Cayman Islands. More than 1,500 miles away, the Atlantic Ocean fronting the Coney Island keeps its dark bluish green hue. Did you know that the Bondi Blue color of the Apple computers was named after the hue of the Tasman Sea off the coast of the Sydney beach.

Ocean ‘Dead-Zone’ Spans 8,000 Square Miles

06.18.2019 09:39 AM

Climate change and farming practices lead to massive dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Ocean Habitats Are On a Steep Decline

06.12.2019 08:43 AM

A crisis for biodiversity also risks becoming a major humanitarian challenge. Billions of people worldwide - especially the world's poorest- rely on healthy oceans to provide livelihoods, jobs and food and the range of goods and services that flow from coastal and marine environments.

Plastics In the Ocean Is Killing Life Under The Sea

06.10.2019 09:48 AM

Microplastics may be found on land and in the air, but most of it are deep down in the ocean more than 650 feet below the surface.

Two Tons Of Discarded Nets Removed From Greek Seabeds

06.05.2019 10:18 AM

As teams of Dutch and Greek divers delved into the Greek sea floor, they find an unexpected seabed cover.

The Ocean Could be a New Wave for Renewable Energy, But What Are the Risks?

06.04.2019 10:06 AM

Wave energy systems use the water’s movement to make electricity. There's no question that finding new sources of renewable energy is good for the environment.

Scientists Confirm Climate Change has Diversified Plankton

06.02.2019 00:04 AM

Researchers compared the difference between the communities of plankton floating in the ocean waters from 170 years ago to the present.

Octopuses May Go Blind As Climate Change Sucks Oxygen Out of the Ocean Says New Research

05.20.2019 17:39 PM

Recent study shows that oxygen in the water is important to the vision of marine invertebrates Humans need oxygen to turn light particles into visual information, and this is true with marine invertebrates as well.

Winds and Water Temperatures are the Main Ingredients in Southeast Asia’s Seasonal Monsoon

05.08.2019 07:57 AM

The cause of the monsoon is an increasing temperature difference between the warming land and the cool ocean.

Earth’s Deepest Point Is Polluted with Plastics Says Scientists

05.04.2019 22:49 PM

The plastics apocalypse is very threatening on a very deep level. Research published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters, details the staggering amount of microplastics found even at the ocean's natural deepest point, the Mariana Trench.

200,000 Unique Viruses Found Hidden In The Oceans

04.29.2019 20:52 PM

The deepest parts of the oceans remain a mystery to a lot of people and scientists discovered that there are 200,000 new viruses hidden in the unknowns of the deep.