An international team has produced the first global assessment of the major drivers of marine heatwaves. The frequency of marine heatwave days increased by 50% over the past century but our ability to ...

Microorganisms are the engines that drive most marine processes. Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account. Marine microorganisms are crucial for ocean health.

Marine snow—a mixture of dead plankton, waste, mucus, and other organic material slowly sinking from the ocean’s surface—is an important, but poorly understood, part of the ocean carbon cycle. Credit: ...

Limited understanding of basic ocean processes is hindering progress in marine carbon dioxide removal, with the on-going commercialization of some approaches 'premature and misguided'. Scientists now ...

Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...

Heterotrophic marine bacteria that live in surface waters use a range of strategies to obtain energy from sunlight, either directly or indirectly, even though they rely on organic compounds for most ...

The IAEA has redesignated today the Spanish National Accelerator Centre (CNA) in Seville as an IAEA Collaborating Centre for a third term to enhance global marine research using accelerator-based ...

Experts warn that rising sea temperatures are accelerating ecological shifts in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, ...

NEW DELHI: A new study throws light on the limitations of the current approaches of removing carbon dioxide from the ocean. Unlike planting trees on the land to evacuate carbon, current approaches ...

The IAEA's Marine Radioactivity Information System (MARIS) allows free access to users to search and download the results of measurements of radioactivity in seawater, biota, sediment and suspended ...

The property includes a continuous series of coastal and marine ecosystems, corresponding to the marine and intertidal environments of the best-preserved areas of the Bijagós Archipelago in ...