Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change ...

From Toronto to Minneapolis, Chicago to Omaha many places in North America are seeing a surge in summer heat well into fall. But one of the drivers is a weather phenomenon occurring thousands of miles ...

Extreme heat can have a devastating effect on seagrass, but new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) could shape how ...

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say marine heat waves are on track to affect an unprecedented swath of the world's oceans this year. NOAA's experimental forecast ...

New research shows the effects of marine heat waves on sponges could be much more severe as temperatures rise. More intense marine heat waves as a result of climate change could lead to the mass loss ...

Yesterday, an international team of researchers from various disciplines set off aboard the German research vessel METEOR for an expedition along the west coast of Africa, led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz ...

Oceans all over the world are experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures, but waters off the southern U.S. could be on the brink of an ocean heat wave emergency as temperatures rise to unprecedented ...

WASHINGTON — Whether you want to call it “Blob 2.0" or more scientifically put, a marine heat wave, is back on the West Coast. A massive warmer-than-normal pool of water that’s formed in the Pacific ...

Life in the ocean runs on light. It fuels photosynthesis, shapes food webs and determines where many marine species can live. Australia's climate is changing rapidly due to rising global greenhouse ...

Researchers say marine heat waves could soon become more frequent in the future. The record-breaking marine heat wave in the seas off northern Europe was “unprecedented but not unexpected” in a ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny ...