It’s not seaweed. They’ve been called the “lungs of the sea.” And while certain marine microbes could also compete for that ...

When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the processes underlying these wave-induced ice fractures and predicting when ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

Cheers rose from a bundled-up crowd as a loggerhead sea turtle that survived a likely shark attack trundled back into the ...

DOST-PAGASA explains how peak monsoonal winds and localized storms—not cyclones—caused January 2026’s fatal maritime ...

From the wish-granting jinn of Arabian folklore to the shadow people of Inuit mythology, creatures possessing the fantastical ...

The National Weather Service on Thursday warned that “dangerously cold and very dry Arctic air” will spill into the ...

University of Rhode Island assistant professor Che-Wei Chang will use a newly awarded US Science Foundation grant to study how plants can blunt coastal erosion ...

Space debris reentries are surging, and tracking systems fail when it matters most. Researchers found an unexpected solution ...

The sudden blast may come as a shock to many Americans after a mostly mild start to winter, but that warmth may be partly ...