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Geoengineering should not be seen as a viable approach to environmental management. The presumed threats associated with climate change should not drive us to such extreme measures.

As a Taiwanese-American, Dr. Lin's dive marked the first time a person of Asian descent had traveled to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

DDDDDuuuuuuuhhhhhhh!!!!!!~ctm From Science Magazine Dec 20, 2018 Along the US East Coast, the Earth’s continued response to the end of the last ice age explains variances in relative sea level rates Chestnut Hill, Mass...

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a mega-colony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a supercolony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

Passengers on a plane flight in 2012 saw something strange from the air: a raft of floating rock called pumice that grew to be roughly the size of Philadelphia, over 150 square miles, in the southwest Pacific Ocean...

A groundbreaking new study led by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has revealed that the first evidence of water on Earth and in the inner solar system dates the arrival of water to a much earlier...

Image via Shutterstock A new study published in the journal Science finds that global warming slowed down in recent years because oceans have been absorbing much of the heat...

Questions rise about seeding for ocean C02 sequestration - Argonne National Laboratory LEMONT, Ill – A new study on the feeding habits of ocean microbes calls into question the potential use of algal blooms to trap carbon...

Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron just announced plans to donate the submarine he used last year to reach the oceans’ deepest point to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The engineering advancements...

Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron is giving the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) the submarine he used last year to reach the oceans’ deepest point. The engineering advancements of the high-tech submersible...

Photo via Shutterstock When it comes to tackling the enormous challenge of curbing climate change, we humans may need to look to some very small organisms for help...

A year and a half after an earthquake caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, experts have found that the plant may still be leaking radiation into the sea...

Effect of CO2 levels on phytoplankton. Story submitted by Don Healy This article opens up a whole new vista into the relationship between CO2 levels, oceanic plant growth and the complex relationships that we have yet to...

More modeling madness projecting the future, but the actual data for the past 30 years says otherwise, with a positive trend. Regular commenter Julienne Stroeve of NSIDC is one of the co-authors, so perhaps she’ll weigh...