Oceanography
New study examines rare sedimentary rocks atop some of the planet's oldest large land masses.
Unexpectedly warm water may explain how North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles get from Japan to Baja California.
Researchers confirm that sharks use a magnetic field to change their route.
It’s becoming increasingly noisy beneath the waves, but people can do something about it.
Australian scientists measure the gases that two Great Barrier Reef corals emit.
A quarter century of shoreline measurements show that the supermoon’s gravitational force drives more erosion.
Unusually hot zones in the ocean will last longer and occur more often in the coming century.
Climate scientists propose new explanation for the rapid changes to the ocean carbon sink in the 1990s.
Researchers discover hot spot off the coast of Italy with up to 1.9 million pieces of plastic per square meter.
Gel-like beads embedded with natural bacteria could fight harmful algal blooms.
Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across.
Researchers are learning how to cope with the arrival of the sargassum’s “brown tide."