For the first time, a study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego ...

Picture the vast expanse of ocean you've seen in postcards or vacation photos - that brilliant blue stretching endlessly toward the horizon. Yet something profound is happening beneath those familiar ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

Oceans help sustain life on Earth, but the tipping point is near, experts said. Oceans do so much to sustain life on Earth, including bearing the brunt of global temperatures that have been steadily ...

It's the first time the ocean has been factored into the cost of carbon.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

Ocean damage has been missing from climate math. A new study shows how counting it nearly doubles the cost of carbon pollution.

View of Miami skyline including Bird Key, a private island on Biscayne Bay that is now for sale, upsetting environmentalists because developers could build on the island, displacing all the birds, on ...

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 ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an ...

The oceans of the world absorb the overwhelming majority of the heat caused by global warming, creating serious consequences for life in and around them, including humans. "The oceans do a lot of the ...