Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

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Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that ...

The line where ocean meets air has always looked fragile, a knife-edge boundary stretched over crushing depths and shifting ...

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 ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced an award of more than $7.3 million to support four interdisciplinary research projects ...

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

An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from ...

Every year, gray whales embark on one of nature’s most epic migration journeys. Here’s what we know about it, according to ...

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...