More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic to ...

Earth's climate is a dynamic system of interconnected physical processes and events occurring around the globe. Many of these processes are coupled so that changes in one event or process in one ...

For the first time on record, storms have reached top-tier Category 5 strength in every tropical ocean basin in the same year. A combination of human-caused climate change and El Niño have heated ...

Volcanic activity beneath and adjacent to ocean basins shapes the global environment through episodic eruptions that inject ash, gases and particulates into the atmosphere and marine systems.

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...

Anoxic marine basins may be among the most viable places to conduct large-scale carbon sequestration in the deep ocean, while minimizing negative impacts to marine life. As we explore ways to actively ...

Six cyclones are spinning through the tropics right now, churning over the ocean and sometimes over land in both hemispheres. Most are bringing serious impacts to populated areas, and one has set a ...

(via PBS Eons) This is the hundred-year tale of how an unlikely bunch of bottom-dwelling marine critters helped reveal that ocean basins are basically reincarnated every few hundred million years.

Plastic pollution has become a global environmental crisis, with an estimated 11 million tons of plastic entering the oceans each year. As larger plastic debris breaks down into microplastics, these ...

Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment this summer in ocean waters south of Martha’s Vineyard. The experiment to tinker with the pH of a patch of ocean ...

The upper panel illustrates how ENSO influences the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how these two ocean basins in turn feed back to ENSO. On the right side of the panel, the schematic shows ...

Anoxic marine basins are among the most viable places to conduct large-scale carbon sequestration in the deep ocean, while minimizing negative impacts to marine life. So say UC Santa Barbara ...