A little background: What’s so special about the Galápagos? There is far more than one could learn in a lifetime about geology, ecology, biology, and evolution from the Galápagos Archipelago, and part ...

One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the planet via currents. Think of the ocean as Earth's central heating system, constantly redistributing thermal energy from the ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...

Farming in the UK would become more difficult if climate change wreaks havoc on ocean currents. (PA) The UK could face dramatically colder temperatures as climate change wreaks havoc on ocean currents ...

The Nordic Seas — In 2011, Bob Pickart stood onboard a research ship in the Denmark Strait, facing a scientific mystery. He and a team of Icelandic scientists were studying the water flowing between ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...

Victoria Glynn’s illustrations show the complex relationships between the coral animal, and the algae and bacteria that live with the coral. Taken together, this is called the coral holobiont. To ...