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Hurricanes, as destructive as they are, also play a crucial role in keeping Earth’s climate balanced and our planet green and ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Plankton play a central role in a climate process that scientists now say may behave more aggressively than once thought. As ...

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Learn more about Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the mysteries that lurk beneath its icy surface.

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Read more about marine snow.