Worms in your fish. The mere thought causes most people to shudder and just say no thanks. But what if their presence is ...

How much of the essential trace element iron remains available for marine life in the ocean depends critically on the ...

The study emphasizes that something that seems unappetizing could actually reflect decades of environmental progress.

When scientists aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough pulled seawater samples from around one of the largest icebergs on ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The mysteries of our ocean are not fully understood. The deepest, darkest areas may conjure up ideas of monsters like the megalodon from the Jason Statham movie. Though there are creepy creatures down ...

NASA-backed simulations reveal that meltwater from Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier lifts deep-ocean nutrients to the surface, sparking large summer blooms of phytoplankton that feed the Arctic food web ...

The Earth’s oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million ...

Is climate change altering the seasonal patterns of marine species? With the monsoon extending unusually long this year, Mumbai’s coastline has become a site of unexpected marine activity. Nature ...

The ocean contains many organisms whose form defies the expectations we might have for life, but none may be more bizarre ...