Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Data from the world's oceans now reveal that an alarming acceleration in sea surface warming likely contributed. A new study from ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

Sea level can temporarily change for a variety of reasons—atmospheric pressure shifts and water accumulation from wind and ...

It may sparkle in the sun, but the ocean's surface is a dynamic thermometer for our planet. The sea surface temperature (SST) is measured by satellites and buoys in the ocean, to give the most ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, ...

"The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height." ...

Ecologists at Stanford University are studying how microplastics are distributed and where they come to rest. Microplastics are tiny pieces of debris broken off from larger pieces of plastic. They are ...

WASHINGTON — An eerie deep-sea creature made a surprising appearance near the ocean’s surface last week. Condrik Tenerife, a shark ocean research organization, spotted a humpback anglerfish while the ...

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...