Scientists are pretty good at recognizing marine heat waves: A global network of thousands of oceanic buoys and orbiting satellites allow them to see, in real time, ocean surface temperatures, ...

Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a ...

A new analysis of century-old coral skeletons shows that ocean acidity along the Pacific coast has risen far faster than ...

Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a new study has ...

Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...

Nearly seven kilometers beneath thePacific Ocean’s surface, in an environment no human has seen directly, scientists have ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean ...

The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...

The ship was more than 160 kilometers offshore when biological oceanographer Rasmus Swalethorp spotted yellow smoke billowing above Los Angeles. Swalethorp and nearly 40 others had set sail less than ...