Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of ...

Single-celled algae in the ocean known as coccolithophores play an important role in the marine carbon cycle when they take ...

(CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according ...

The unmanned Saildrone Explorers that the University of Hawaii at Manoa are using as part of a climate change study are equipped with advanced acoustic and security camera systems and sensors to ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" ...

March 3 (UPI) --Some 800 million years ago, changes in ocean chemistry nearly prevented the proliferation of oxygen in the atmosphere, threatening the development of complex life forms. The close call ...

A new analysis of strontium isotopes in marine sediments has enabled scientists to reconstruct fluctuations in ocean chemistry related to changing climate conditions over the past 35 million years.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dungeness crab season is big business in Oregon, but according to a recent study the state’s harvest could be facing a new threat. The study by the National Oceanic and ...

Wei-Jun Cai, an expert in marine chemistry at the University of Delaware, is sounding new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean, where he and an ...