A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that when iron is scarce, phytoplankton waste energy and photosynthesis falters.

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The first icefish was discovered in 1927, swimming in the frigid waters of the southernmost extreme of the Earth, the ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might support life. Now ...

Today, plastic has become a major environmental problem affecting all the world's seas. Even the most remote seas, such as Antarctica, are polluted by large and small plastics.

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.