Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

Global ocean heat content increased by approximately 23 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2025, roughly 40 times annual global primary energy consumption. This is not good.

Early-career scientists at Rutgers lead an ambitious expedition to study ocean mixing and its role in sustaining life and ...

During training cruises and regattas, sailors collect valuable data for climate research at sea. A study appearing in Science ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...

Redwing is autonomous underwater glider expected to circle the world in a little over four years, then return to Cape Cod.

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

In August 2026, Gradone and Selden will lead a 28-day expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (too), a state-of-the-art research ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

Along a stretch of coast that usually behaves by the book, officials have been grappling with a rare ocean pattern that has ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Underwater robots face many challenges before they can truly master the deep, such as stability in choppy currents. A new ...