Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Earth's oceans are mysterious, largely unexplored places, but the enormous oceans of Neptune and Uranus have them beat.

The Earth's tectonic plates—massive pieces of the Earth's crust that drift on the semi-fluid mantle beneath—are constantly in ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

Earth’s oceans are absolutely terrifying ... Another frightening fact about the ocean is that it is also extremely deep. So deep that picturing the ocean’s depth in your mind’s eye is ...

The excess ocean warmth has had wide-ranging consequences. In April 2024, as the oceans started simmering, 77 percent of the world’s coral reefs became imperiled in the most extensive bleaching ...

Since industrialised fishing began in the mid-twentieth century, the oceans ... a world where we lose our ocean giants, our resident coastal cetacean communities, and the ability to show our children ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

Scientists have captured magnetic signatures from Earth's ocean tides in the finest detail ... can peer through the depths of Earth's oceans and extract useful information, Strømme said.

The world’s oceans are warming four times faster than they were in the late 1980s, according to a new study. The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean ...