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…
Rare Goblin Shark Spotted Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time
Goblin shark near Tonga Trench (2024). Credit: Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center and Inkfish. Scientists have…
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…
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…
Weakening Gulf Stream System Could Unleash Global Chaos
The AMOC, Earth’s ocean “conveyor belt,” may collapse after 2100 under high-emission scenarios, according to new simulations. Triggered…
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…
SpaceX and satellites help states save millions on internet buildout | Guest Commentary | Commentary
The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program was meant to bring affordable, reliable internet to…
Scientists Discover Mysterious Freshwater Reservoir Beneath the Ocean Floor. How Did It Get There?
Co-chief scientists Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines and Rebecca Robinson of the University of Rhode…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…