Tag: OCEAN

To understand the connection between wastewater infrastructure, groundwater and the coastal ocean, the researchers used chemical tracers

The 25th scientific expedition is currently working at the Ukrainian polar station Akademik Vernadsky, and during all these years women had spent the winter there only a few times. In 1997-1998, four women scientists spent the winter as part of the second Antarctic expedition, but later this right was granted exclusively to men. It took more than 20 years for gender policy to change and the long-standing taboo to be finally broken…

Mass ice loss from Greenland is the single largest contributor to sea level rise today, and Antarctica is projected to contribute significantly to sea level rise in the decades to come.

This is the finding of a new study that could help researchers determine the best spots to search for microbes that could be unique to the region, having been isolated and evolving alone for millions of years.

A new USC study puts ocean microbes in a new light with important implications for global warming.

Female orcas are most thrown off from foraging when boats and vessels intrude closer than 400 yards, according to new research.

The Antarctic Akademik Vernadsky station celebrates an important anniversary - 25 years since the day when the owner country changed. On February 6, 1996, the Union Jack was lowered at this Antarctic station and the Ukrainian flag was raised for the first time.

Solis Marine Consultants sponsors Northwest Passage Expedition

The study represents the first investigation of microplastic abundance, characteristics and seasonal variation along the Ganges River

Discoverer will be a state-of-the-art ship that operates around the nation and the world to study and explore the ocean.

NOAA-funded researchers have identified a new record size coral colony at Ta’u Island in American Samoa, even larger than the island’s Big Momma colony, one of the largest in the world.

Underwater seagrass in coastal areas appear to trap bits of plastic in natural bundles of fibre known as "Neptune balls," researchers said.