As the search intensifies for the submersible that lost contact with its mother ship on Sunday as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic, many are wondering how deep the ocean is and what exactly ...

Water Selectively Absorbs Light Wavelengths The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light ...

Ocean motion plays a key role in the Earth's energy and climate systems. In recent decades, ocean science has made great strides in providing general estimates of large-scale ocean motion. However, ...

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its ...

Did you know that the ocean produces approximately half of the world's oxygen? Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries, like a painkiller found in a sea snail? It's all true! And so is ...

The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely sensed sea-surface temperatures ...