Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

SAR11 bacteria dominate the world’s oceans by being incredibly efficient, shedding genes to survive in nutrient-poor waters.

Earth's ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to temper the impact of climate change but increasing ocean ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though ...

The curious minds at What If explore what Earth would be like half land and half ocean, revealing climate, ecology, and human ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Common ocean bacteria struggle to divide when conditions change, reshaping how warming seas affect ecosystems.

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

That’s what scientists are studying, currently, at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier – aka the “Doomsday Glacier – which can ...