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At Año Nuevo State Beach, tide pools teem with marine life. Vibrantly colored nudibranchs and starfish scour this ever-changing habitat while hermit crabs navigate millennia-old depressions in the coastal rock they call home. The…

NASA’s satellite mission to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity launched successfully into orbit at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday. Known as PACE, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate,…

“So far, we have delivered 447 metric tons of medical supplies to Gaza, but it’s a drop in the ocean of need, which continues to grow every day,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Hospitals in crisisOnly 15 out of 36 hospitals are still…

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Saturn's moon Mimas has a giant impact crater, named Hershel, that stretches across a third of its surface and makes it resemble the "Death Star" from Star…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ocean Aero, INTRA Defense Technologies, and MEMR are proud to announce a formal partnership and the signing of a teaming agreement that positions the three companies as key contributors to the…

Mimas photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraftNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science I Saturn’s moon Mimas appears to have a vast global ocean underneath its icy shell, according to close measurements of its orbit. If other…

Mimas photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraftNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science I Saturn’s moon Mimas appears to have a vast global ocean underneath its icy shell, according to close measurements of its orbit. If other…

Orange elephant ear sponge, in the Gulf of Mexico. G. P. Schmahl, NOAA A controversial new…

This undated image provided by Amos Winter shows a sponge from the Caribbean. This sponge, a simple animal that filters water, and a handful of other centuries-old…

The figure shows the most powerful heat wave in the Arctic Ocean to date in 2020, which continued for 103 days. The cumulative heat intensity sums up the daily…

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, feature hints that it was once part of a planetesimal with conditions favourable for life to emerge

The most intense lightning storms occur over the oceanMelidis Alexandros/Shutterstock A new type of thunderstorm, responsible for the most intense lightning ever observed, has been identified by analysing satellite…

UW and Smithsonian researchers develop DNA identification methods for monitoring Salish Sea planktonic communities From the Winter 2023/2024 Sea Star By Katalin Plummer, WSG Science Communications Fellow Sometimes it’s the smallest…

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Surfers play an overlooked role in keeping other beachgoers safe, according to new research. Martin Berry / Alamy Stock Photo…

Findings could represent new drug targets for human pathogens A new study led by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Swansea University Medical School furthers our knowledge of viruses—in the sea and on land—…

Carbon isotope, total organic carbon, sea surface temperature and biomarker records for Demerara Rise, North Atlantic Ocean, with distinctive peaks and troughs during…

In this video message, NOS Assistant Administrator Nicole LeBoeuf shares the news that NOAA and partners helped recover over $92 million from polluters to restore seven…

SIMA Platinum Rewards Visa® Credit Card SkyOne FCU partners with Surf Industry Members Association (SIMA) to launch the SIMA Platinum Rewards Visa®, promoting ocean conservation and sustainability. This is the only credit card that…

Tropical cyclone season The 1966 North Indian Ocean cyclone season had no bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between…

Kelp cultivated in underwater forests could help curb climate change, both because of the carbon these forests capture and because products made from kelp can…

The annual competition aims to help students expand their ocean-related knowledge outside the classroom and to become environmental stewards. University High School of Irvine, California, emerged victorious on Jan. 20 at the Los Angeles…

A groundbreaking new study spanning more than a decade and hundreds of miles of the Florida Coral Reef demonstrates the key role benthic communities play in reducing the impacts of climate change on coral reef ecosystems,…

Now through 2027, one of the most famous observational arrays in the ocean-monitoring world is getting a make-over by the National Data Buoy Center with additional capabilities, updated instruments, more strategic placement, and…

Last year was the warmest since records began in the mid-1800s – and likely for many thousands of years before.  It was the first year in which average global temperatures at the surface exceeded 1.5C above…

A new paper published Dec. 19 in Oceanography examines whether U.S. ocean science institutions are recruiting and retaining the diverse cadre of talent needed to address climate change, food security, sustainable development, and other…

Exploring more of the ocean – and finding new ways to do it safely – represents tremendous opportunities both at home and in international markets. The ocean is responsible for 30% of Atlantic Canadian exports and 320,000 jobs across…

Tuna swim near the ocean surface. Credit: NOAA Projections of future nutrient limitation and primary production have implications for fisheries management. The authors used GFDL’s Earth system model, ESM4.1,…

Large-scale transport of floaters by the undulating carpet. The actuator, shown in panels a and b, is comprised of a helix rotating inside a blue shell. Rotation of…

The robotic arm gripping a seashellXun Zhao An artificial skin is helping a robot to recognise the difference between picking up inanimate objects and living sea creatures such as starfish and shellfish. That sense…

NIEHS grantees Mark Hahn, Ph.D., and John Stegeman, Ph.D., contributed to a recently released study focusing on how plastics may affect ocean and human health. Stegeman directs the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health, which is…

Native Hawaiian graduate student surveys reef. Credit: Todd Glaser In Hawaiʻi and across much of Oceania, Pacific Islanders celebrate the…

Clusters of white crabs on the ocean floor helped lead scientists to a new discovery off the Galápagos Islands: a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs, full of life.The scientists were on an expedition with the nonprofit…

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This year was marked by many broken records in the ocean. Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images…

Let’s ponder this for a moment: Maybe you live in South Florida. Maybe the weather is warm, beautiful, sunny. Maybe you’re looking forward to a few days of boating while the rest of the country battles ice storms, snow drifts and…

This illustration by Benjamin Storer shows oceanic weather systems (mesoscale eddies) from data overlaid with atmospherically driven climate-scale currents (black…

On the morning of 26 December 2004, exactly 19 years ago, a mega earthquake hit northern Sumatra in Indonesia, triggering one of the largest tsunamis in the world. The epicentre of the earthquake was the off-west coast of northern…

Listening Sessions Set for Input on Ocean and Bay Plan - State of…

Sahit Muja CEO Albanian Minerals utilizing Magnesium composition in Ocean Turning the Tide: A Revolutionary Breakthrough Counters Ocean Acidification, Transforms CO2 into Vital Nutrients, Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future NEW…

Glasses with nearly 100 year old mussels and sea snails. The samples contain information on how the chemistry of the ocean was before nuclear tests and CO2 from…

Plastic pollution in the Arctic marine system is sparsely quantified, and few enforceable policies are in place to ameliorate the issue. With an inflow-outflow budget for the Arctic Ocean, we identify gateways through which plastic…

Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) team on BIOS's research vessel Atlantic Explorer. Credit: BATS Decade-long ocean warming that…

In the context of the "Tethys one-way train" (long-term cyclical northward breakup-drifting of Gondwana continental fragments), an increase in low-latitude continental…

NOAA Coral Reef Watch version 3.1 data as annual plots (1985–2023) of the daily percentage of ocean pixels with Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) ≥ 4 (when coral bleaching is…

After years of drought the short rainy season (October to December, OND) in the Horn of Africa brought exceptionally heavy rains, particularly in November, leading to severe flooding in the South of Ethiopia, Eastern Kenya and many…

Scientists have uncovered a connection between temperature gradients in the Pacific Ocean and deadly but predictable consecutive dry spells in East Africa. Frequent droughts—interspersed with floods—have become the new norm in eastern…

Spatial distribution of carbon stocks and their accumulation rate in the study region of the South Yellow Sea and East China Sea. Credit: Ma et al. 2023.…