The Australian region has set new sea surface temperature records on each of the past five months, with the oceans expected ...

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Global warming is increasing ocean temperatures at a rate that could have dire consequences for the largest estuary in the United States, according to a new study from t Institute of Marine Science.

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

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“The conditions seen in the Gulf of Maine were a departure from the record-setting temperatures seen elsewhere in the North Atlantic and across the world’s oceans,” the report said. The gulf ...

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent for February, dropping 8% below average, marking the third consecutive month ...

A research team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a phenomenon that despite rising sea surface temperatures, global ...