A recent groundbreaking study has revealed an astonishing natural event: terrestrial animals that managed to journey across ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Wherever there’s water, copepods thrive ... the tiny plankton that float with the ocean currents. Many of these creatures are too small to photograph without special scientific tools.

Mysterious, floating stones have been found on beaches across Monmouth County and ocean officials are trying to figure out ...

They sit there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and scientists have long debated ... go from one land mass to another via a body of water–is the primary way that newly formed islands are ...

It’s an apt metaphor, because the weed forms a kind of canopy at the ocean surface. Sargassum brings to my mind a floating reef or ... populate a drop of water from the Sargasso Sea.

Velev and Ph.D. student Haeleen Hong, the paper's first author, say these particles' sticky nature can attract microplastics and grab them—even in wet and salty conditions, like ocean water.

Mindelo/Kiel. Today, the German research vessel POLARSTERN sets sail from the subtropical Mindelo, Cabo Verde, on a special expedition. On board are 13 Master’s students from West Africa, who will ...