oceans

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed…

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The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team…

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one…

Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every…

President Donald Trump's executive order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry drew praise from commercial fishing groups and condemnation…

Earth’s oceans may not have always been as brilliantly blue as they are today. In fact, there may have been…

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as…

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023…