Maksagak has been instrumental in helping Real Ice to consult with the local community about their research, and she is ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Trees, plants and tiny plankton in the ocean all convert CO2 into the oxygen we breathe ... of climate change on whales’ ...

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

One of the greatest tools used by oceanographers today for measuring ocean processes is the CTD. CTD stands for Conductivity, Temperature and Depth. Conductivity is a measure of ocean salinity. The ...

Ocean heat content is typically lower during ice ages and rises during warmer periods of glacier retreat. Over the past 1.2 million years, ice ages and interglacials have occurred in cycles ...

Their initial work has shown that pumping just 10 inches of ocean water on top of ... Similarly, blue cod lay their eggs under the ice, algae grows on it, and larger mammals and birds migrate ...

The family would have liked to look after the hatchlings for around a year, so that they could have grown big and strong before being released back into the wild Pacific Ocean. While New ... made an ...