Elephant seals, sentinels of the ocean's depths
The population fluctuations of these marine mammals reveal a connection between the abundance of their prey and biophysical oscillations in the Pacific Ocean.
Long-term data analysis prompts rethink on regional differences in ocean carbon sequestration
A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the ...
'Are we going to suffocate?': Earth is slowly running out of oxygen. Here’s when it will happen
Earth’s oxygen will vanish in a billion years due to a brightening Sun, ending most life and leaving a methane-rich world ...
Autonomous robots track plankton in the Arctic Ocean
It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.
Study models asteroid collision’s potentially devastating impact
A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...