SAN DIEGO, Calif. — According to scientists, the ocean is protecting us from some of the worst effects of climate change, absorbing more than 90% of the heat from human-caused global warming and about ...

New information about an emerging technique that could track microplastics from space has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Michigan. It turns out that satellites are best at spotting ...

Tracking the turtle’s movements could help identify where high-risk fishing areas overlap with the critically endangered ...

As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet’s ocean — but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task. A surprising feature of the tides could help, however.

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...