Oceans

  1. Animals

    Sea creatures’ sticky ‘mucus houses’ catch ocean carbon really fast

    A new deepwater laser tool measures the carbon-filtering power of snot nets created by little-known sea animals called giant larvaceans.

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  2. Climate

    Radical idea could restore ice in the Arctic Ocean

    Windmill-powered pumps on buoys throughout the Arctic Ocean could help bring back shrinking sea ice, researchers say.

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  3. Oceans

    The Arctic is a final garbage dump for ocean plastic

    Ocean currents dump plastic garbage from the North Atlantic into previously pristine Arctic waters, new research shows.

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  4. Oceans

    The Arctic is a final garbage dump for ocean plastic

    Ocean currents dump plastic garbage from the North Atlantic into previously pristine Arctic waters, new research shows.

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  5. Oceans

    More than one ocean motion determines tsunami size

    The horizontal movement of the seafloor during an earthquake can boost the size of the resulting tsunami, researchers propose.

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  6. Animals

    New worm-snail is a super slimer

    New worm-snail species shoots snot to snag a snack.

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  7. Climate

    The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing a major coral bleaching event right now

    A second coral bleaching event has struck the Great Barrier Reef in 12 months, new observations reveal, raising concerns about the natural wonder’s future.

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  8. Oceans

    Thinning ice creates undersea Arctic greenhouses

    Arctic sea ice thinned by climate change increasingly produces conditions favorable for phytoplankton blooms in the waters below, new research suggests.

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  9. Climate

    Arctic sea ice hits record wintertime low

    Warm temperatures and heat waves reduced sea ice extent in the Arctic to its smallest maximum extent ever seen.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon may not conceal an ocean after all

    A lack of cracks on Mimas suggests that the icy moon of Saturn doesn’t conceal a subsurface ocean of liquid water.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon may not conceal ocean after all

    A lack of cracks on Mimas suggests that the icy moon of Saturn doesn’t conceal a subsurface ocean of liquid water.

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  12. Environment

    Most fish turned into fishmeal are species that we could be eating

    Millions of tons of food-grade fish are turned into fishmeal for aquaculture and agriculture.

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