Ecology
Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery
Elated researchers watched baby octopuses hatch en masse near Pacific Ocean hydrothermal vents
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Animals
Great White Sharks Are Surging off Cape Cod
Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic
Oceans
What Safety Features Should Subs like the Titan Be Equipped With?
With the Titan vessel’s fate yet to be determined, an expert explains the safety features that should be onboard such a submersible
Oceans
See How Crushing Pressures Increase in the Ocean’s Depths
If the missing Titan submersible was near the Titanic when it imploded, it would have experienced pressure higher than that of a great white shark bite
Oceans
What Happened to Imploded Titanic Tourist Sub?
The tourist submersible Titan imploded while diving to visit the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank in 1912
Oceans
Giant Seaweed ‘Blob’ Could Carry Dangerous Bacteria
The combination of a massive seaweed bloom, plastic in the ocean and climate change is increasing the risk of dangerous infections
Oceans
Some Crabs Are Losing Their Sense of Smell as Oceans Acidify
Commercially valuable Dungeness crabs lose their sense of smell as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide and becomes more acidic
Oceans
Bizarre Blue ‘Jellyfish’ Washing Up on California Beaches Are a Sign of Spring
’Tis the season for hordes of blue jellyfishlike creatures to wash up on California beaches
Climate Change
How Warming Upended One of Greenland’s Most Stable Glaciers
Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier doubled its annual ice loss in just a few years, thanks to warm ocean water
Oceans
Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic creates strange communities that bring coastal and open-ocean animals together
Climate Change
Southeastern U.S. Seas Are Rising at Triple the Global Average
Sea levels off the southeastern U.S. have risen more than a centimeter a year over the past decade—about triple the global average—and the effects on communities near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean already are being observed...
Oceans
Here’s the Real Story behind the Massive ‘Blob’ of Seaweed Heading toward Florida
Florida beaches are already receiving hefty batches of brown seaweed, kicking off a year that could break records
Oceans
A Historic Deal to Protect the High Seas Makes Researchers ‘Ecstatic’
The historic High Seas Treaty aims to preserve marine biodiversity in what has been considered the “Wild West” of the oceans while still encouraging research
Climate Change
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits a Record Low, but Role of Warming Is Unclear
The vast and deep Southern Ocean complicates efforts to single out the role of climate change in declining sea ice
Oceans
How Helper Sharks Discovered the World’s Largest Seagrass Ecosystem
Scientists partnered with tiger sharks to map seagrass—the unsung hero of ocean conservation.
Climate Change
Algal Blooms Have Boomed Worldwide
Climate change is likely at least partially to blame for an uptick in the size and frequency of algal blooms in parts of the world’s oceans
Climate Change
Scientists Are Trying to Pull Carbon Out of the Ocean to Combat Climate Change
Instead of sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some scientists are looking to capture it from the oceans
Oceans
Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row
The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters
Conservation
China and Russia Continue to Block Protections for Antarctica
For the sixth year in a row, nations failed to agree on any new marine protected areas in the fragile Southern Ocean around Antarctica
Oceans
Rare Red Sea Brine Pool Holds Secrets of Past Natural Disasters
An ultradense pool of salty water at the bottom of the ocean holds a pristine record of hundreds of years of tsunamis, earthquakes and floods
