World Oceans Day on June 8 highlights the ocean's vital role in life, with 2026 focused on reimagining humanity's ...

The ocean works quietly every day to protect life on Earth. It absorbs heat from the atmosphere, stores massive amounts of carbon dioxide and produces much of the oxygen humans breathe.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean sits a small island that is helping scientists understand how the entire planet works. I was there last week. And it really helped me. The first thing Tracy said ...

Florida State University research published in Science Advances demonstrates a new framework for predicting the motion of ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

What comes to mind when you think of the ocean? Maybe a day at the beach — swimming in the waves, snorkeling through coral reefs, fishing, surfing, and sunsets that kiss the blue horizon. But Earth’s ...