Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fueling Antarctica’s marine food web. For decades, scientists have attributed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sprawling, slow-moving system of ocean currents circulating in the Atlantic that help regulate the earth’s temperature is set to deliver a blob of warmer, ...

The significance of deep-sea virology and its impacts on global climate and biogeochemical structures is not unknown, though its importance might be understated Despite their tiny size, viruses have a ...

A number of environmental parameters can have strong impacts on mine warfare operations. These factors, discussed below, can affect operations directly, as with the influence of currents on diver ...

At the University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) we know students cannot understand the marine, earth or climate sciences solely from a textbook. CEOE offers diverse ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

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Developed by the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University, the app compiles data from various sources, including government agencies and academic research. Users can access information on fishing ...