Scientists believe unusual shifts in ocean currents and rising water temperatures played a role in transporting the species ...

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...

An image of the northern Gulf of Mexico created from remote-sensing reflectance and chlorophyll measurements taken from newly reprocessed VIIRS data. In a study published July 12 in the journal Nature ...

Antarctica’s biggest and oldest free‑floating iceberg is undergoing a startling transformation, with its once white surface ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Climate change is already having profound effects on our planet, and here’s one more: It’s changing the color of the oceans, with the blues getting bluer and the greens getting greener. A new study ...

We take for granted that the sky is blue, leaves are green, and the ocean is kind of blue-green, but scientists warn that some of those things won’t stay the same for long. As the Earth’s climate ...

Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky, and considering blue's color symbolism, it makes sense why this color is associated with calmness. In fact, one survey found that blue is a favorite color ...