Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

In Scotland, the fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises - Scotland has designated ...

For the first time, a study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego ...

In global climate policy, the ocean was long treated as an afterthought, too vast to manage effectively and too resilient to ...

Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return' ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study ...