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

Global ocean heat content increased by approximately 23 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2025, roughly 40 times annual global primary energy consumption. This is not good.

The Oceanography Society (TOS) has awarded the Ocean Observing Team Award to the Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP), recognizing the program’s groundbreaking and ...

Claims that new research shows the oceans are speeding global cooling have raced across social media, tapping into a wider fatigue with climate headlines and a hunger for contrarian takes. The science ...

As well as 2025 being one of the warmest years for ocean temperatures, Copernicus revealed earlier this month that 2025 was the third-warmest year on record globally with average temperatures of ...

Evidence found that the end of the last ice age saw a massive warming from the emergence of salty water trapped in the deep ocean.

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths ...

What processes are contributing to the global oceans reducing the depths where sunlight reaches, also called ocean darkening? This is what a recent study published in Global Change Biology hopes to ...

BOISE, Idaho — Scientists across the Pacific Northwest are wrapping up summer research on the status of local glaciers – some of which are melting at record speed and impacting the region. Melting ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...