We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out […] ...

As summer warms Istanbul's waters, the megacity's authorities are having to battle a noxious algal bloom dubbed "sea snot".

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

Seabirds soar over oceans, line coasts and nest on islands. When healthy ecosystems thrive, seabirds thrive. To celebrate ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology. The company says its patented particles grow algae ...

Summer is now in full swing here on Cape Cod. The baby birds are out and about, the butterflies are checking out our gardens, ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

Bioluminescence—light that living organisms produce—lights up the ocean. Learn about eight places where the waters glow with this light.