Marine

Scientists have identified a potentially major and previously overlooked source of microplastic pollution in the North Sea: the plastic coatings...

Scientists have developed a mathematical method that can reconstruct the hidden architecture of food webs with more than 80 percent...

In the darkness beneath Japan’s subtropical Ryukyu Islands, where freshwater moves through rock and seawater penetrates hidden underground passages, researchers...

A tiny aquatic animal is offering scientists a new explanation for one of biology’s most persistent mysteries: how a mother’s...

Municipal wastewater sludge is usually treated as a costly by-product—something that must be dewatered, transported and ultimately disposed of. A...

In the high Arctic, the ocean may be sending more than salt into the sky. New balloon measurements above Ny-Ålesund,...

Massive blooms of Sargassum are usually treated as a coastal crisis. When the floating seaweed washes ashore in enormous quantities,...

A handful of tiny, tooth-like scales recovered from ancient reef sediments is offering scientists an unprecedented way to estimate how...

Phytoplankton may be microscopic, but their influence reaches from the surface of the ocean to the global climate system. These...

For decades, climate scientists have warned that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, could weaken dramatically—and potentially collapse—if global...