The waters of the Pacific Ocean near the equator are changing color, becoming noticeably bluer over the last few months.

It’s a strange thought, but a true one. We’ve mapped the Moon in remarkable detail, even its far side, yet large parts of Earth’s oceans are still a mystery. The seafloor, which covers most of our ...

When I was a child, no ship could take cameras, let alone humans, into the deep ocean to see the extraordinary life below. We ...

On a special episode (first released on March 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast:What if we can slow climate change by giving the ocean an antacid? It’s called ocean alkalinity enhancement and it’s ...

The energy that supercharged Hurricane Milton into a Category 5 storm on Monday came from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which have been abnormally warm not just at the surface, but at depth, too.

CU Boulder researchers develop a tool that can model phytoplankton biomass extremes in the ocean in ways that conventional satellites often can’t Phytoplankton, the tiny, single-celled organisms that ...

The ocean has absorbed about 30% of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities since the Industrial Revolution, significantly slowing the pace of climate change. But as emissions continue to rise, ...