The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full ...

As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale ...

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust ... which may help explain ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

In our recent journal paper in Nature Geoscience, we show that a thin layer at the ocean surface called the “ocean skin”, a layer thinner than a human hair, increases this ocean CO₂ uptake ...

As sea levels rose around this low-lying island nation, soil salinity increased beyond what even the salt-tolerant mangrove ...

Most nudibranchs, also known as sea slugs, live on the seafloor. Nudibranchs are common in coastal environments—including ...

Australian climate is influenced by sea surface temperature and atmospheric patterns in the Pacific, Indian and Southern ocean regions. Specific regions are monitored, as they can indicate the ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...

A "remarkable" new sea slug nicknamed the “mystery mollusk” has been discovered swimming deep in the ocean's "midnight" zone.