An international research team led by biochemist Jarmo Kali at UC Riverside has found that human-made organic molecules now account for a significant share of the chemical signature in coastal ocean ...

A study reveals that geoengineering plans to save polar ice would not work and could cause environmental damage.

If you go down to the Mariana Islands today, you could be in for a big surprise. That is certainly the case for marine ...

Sargassum season, when the noxious seaweed begins washing up on Mexico’s Caribbean coastline, has begun earlier than expected this year.

A new study, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Columbia University, identifies a diverse set of ...

As climate change pushes heat deeper into the ocean, scientists have been concerned about disruptions to marine life’s delicate balance. But new research suggests that a key microbe, Nitrosopumilus ...

Tides not only affect regions along the coast, their periodic fluctuations are carried upstream inland through coastal rivers ...

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...