It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

The base is expected to be located up to 200 meters beneath the surface of the ocean; it is expected to accommodate six or more people. In effect, this project will bring humanity to being an ...

NASA has experimented with artificial photosynthesis to investigate how ... it's sent on a one-way trip to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. While China's space agency only confirmed that the ...

at the bottom of the ocean. This idea runs counter to the usual belief that oxygen only forms in sunlight through photosynthesis. Although these findings have stirred debate, the central claim is that ...

The surface of the ocean is warming four times faster than it was 40 years ago, scientists have warned. As the Earth absorbs more heat and reflects less back into space, this increase is only set to ...

In this research, Mitchell and Madhusudhan investigate how ocean surface temperatures affect ... and Archaea will have evolved but not oxygenic photosynthesis or Eukaryotes," the authors write.

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale and are very difficult to measure and model. But recently scientists ...