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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Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...

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.

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

“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 ...

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 ...

despite rising sea surface temperatures, global ocean evaporation has decreased over the past decade. However, observations since the early 2000s have revealed a puzzling slowdown in the growth of ...