Oceans

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

A new study suggests that warming, oxygen-starved seas could lead marine species to vanish at a rate matching the planet’s biggest extinction event on record.

By Bob Berwyn

Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

By Bob Berwyn

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Stories of a Warming Sea, Spotless Dragonflies and Bad News for Shark Week

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In the Pacific, Global Warming Disrupted The Ecological Dance of Urchins, Sea Stars And Kelp. Otters Help Restore Balance.

By Mallory Pickett and Bob Berwyn

Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Bob Berwyn

Giant Icebergs Are Headed for South Georgia Island. Scientists Are Scrambling to Catch Up

By Bob Berwyn

Droughts That Start Over the Ocean? They’re Often Worse Than Those That Form Over Land

By Bob Berwyn

New Study Shows a Vicious Circle of Climate Change Building on Thickening Layers of Warm Ocean Water

By Bob Berwyn

Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land

By Bob Berwyn

Q&A: Oceanographers Tell How the Pandemic Crimps Global Ocean and Climate Monitoring

By Bob Berwyn

New Study Shows Global Warming Increasing Frequency of the Most-Destructive Tropical Storms

By Bob Berwyn

Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis

By Bob Berwyn

Half the World’s Sandy Beaches May Disappear by Century’s End, Climate Study Says

By Neela Banerjee

Climate Change is Pushing Giant Ocean Currents Poleward

By Bob Berwyn

Booming Plastics Industry Faces Backlash as Data About Environmental Harm Grows

By James Bruggers