Coral reefs over the past 12,000 years grew best when the ocean temperature was 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

Ancient fossils show how much warming tropical oceans can handle before plankton collapse, offering clues about future ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

In the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, swirling between Hawaii and California, lies one of humanity’s most visible environmental impacts: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Despite its frequent ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the world's largest oceanic plateau—was extensively altered by massive volcanic ...

Volcanic eruptions spewing red-hot magma & shifting tectonic plates mean our future maps of Africa will have a lot more blue on them. Why Congress can't claw back war powers from Trump With the penny ...

U.S. stocks were higher, with the Dow Jones index gaining more than 500 points on Monday. Shares of Altimmune Inc (NASDAQ: ALT) rose sharply during Monday's session after the FDA granted Breakthrough ...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical system forming in the central Atlantic, with a high probability of becoming a tropical depression or storm within the next day. As of Tuesday ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean but was far from land, forecasters said. The center of Gabrielle re-formed from its morning position and was located about ...