An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Dan Turner, founder of Blue Whale Technologies and a veteran environmental engineer with over 40 years in advanced wastewater ...

Vanguard, a new subsea human habitat, will immerse researchers for weeks, allowing them to observe the ocean’s complexity and ...

Research involving scientists from Newcastle University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in ...

A Journey to the Earth’s Last Wild Coasts is both a visual feast and a moral appeal – a large-format book filled with ...

Though they've evolved over the years—but only a little—the twin Bahamian sanctuaries of Harbour Island and Eleuthera are still perfect for spending languid days in high style.

Calcifying plankton build microscopic shells and move carbon from the atmosphere to the deep ocean Malusi Gigaba has ‘full confidence’ after handing himself over Plea for Elon Musk to rescue ...

Pytoplankton are plant-like microorganisms that are estimated to have generated half of the Earth's oxygen supply. And even when they die, they fall to the ocean floor and turn into a massive carbon ...

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great ...

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Phytoplankton—microscopic algae that form the base of ocean food webs—have long been viewed as transient players in the global carbon cycle: They bloom, die, and the carbon they contain is quickly ...

Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...