Underwater Cameras Expose the Secret Lives of Whale Sharks
Shark-mounted cameras reveal that whale sharks feed far beyond the surface, using diverse strategies from shallow krill pursuits…
Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). Credit: Sarah…
NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of Massive Pacific Tsunami
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sent a tsunami racing across the Pacific—and for the…
Deep-ocean heat near Antarctica threatens catastrophic sea rises | National
Melting ice in Antarctica. (Laura Cimoli via SWNS) By Talker The decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the…
New satellite-based AI approach reveals ocean currents in unprecedented detail
A new study describes an artificial intelligence-powered technique that can measure ocean surface currents over broad areas in…
Study finds crabs hide to avoid cannibalism | National
A basket of blue crabs caught during a survey by the Smithsonian Environmental Resarch Center. (Smithsonian ERC via…
Satellite image shows world’s former largest iceberg near end | National
The bright blue areas visible on its surface and on the icebergs to its south are ponds of…
Melting polar ice supercharges ocean ‘stirring’, threatening marine climate
Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible…
The Ocean Is a Carbon Toilet. Marine Heat Waves Are Clogging It.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole…
NASA Captures Stunning Images of a Titanic Iceberg’s Collapse
Iceberg A-23A, once colossal and long-lived, is breaking apart as it drifts into warmer seas. Once the world’s…
Coral reefs begin death spiral as climate tipping point nears | Outdoors
By Stephen Beech Most coral reefs will soon stop growing and may begin to erode due to climate…
A 30-Year Study Reveals a Hidden Climate Driver Heating Antarctica’s Core
Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive…