The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica's ice sheets ...

Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice. Despite the barren landscape, the evolution of complex life in the oceans was about to ...

Life around the ocean surface can appear strangely similar from a distance. A dorsal fin cuts through the water, a dark body rises briefly to breathe,.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

The Danakil desert in Ethiopia with its acidic lakes gives an mpression of how Earth may have looked around 4 billion years ago. Pockets of liquid water existed on Earth already 4.1 billion years ago, ...

The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake, or Hydrophis platurus, stands as a testament to marine life adaptation. It severed all ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) will open in Nice, France, on June 9, 2025. It is the third conference of its kind, following events in New York in 2017 and Lisbon in 2022. Co-hosted by ...