The idyllic beaches that have defined Goa’s identity and powered its tourism economy are facing an unprecedented threat. Recent findings from the National Centr ...

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta ...

Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone caves filled with sea water, also serve as important repositories for storm ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

By analysing ocean sediments from the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, researchers have shed light on how changes in monsoon activity have influenced water conditions in these regions ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface, far from human notice and as bustling as any city. Animals such as tubeworms and clams live crowded around plumes of methane that bubble up ...

The sampling site, located in a canyon of the Amundsen Sea seamount at a depth exceeding 2,800 meters, required over 20 hours from equipment assembly to recovery before the sediment sample was ...

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once ...

It existed before the L.A. wildfires, but biologists suspect the wind storms that fueled the flames also stirred up sediment in the ocean. That, along with the nutrient-rich runoff, is feeding the ...

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste. A paper describing the research was published in the ...