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 ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Footage captured by sea lions wearing lightweight video cameras is giving researchers a glimpse of previously unexplored areas of the sea floor off the south coast of Australia. The findings, ...