The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and incredibly important to humans, but it faces many threats – from increased human exploitation to the effects of climate change. As this exploitation expands…
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Oceans
Displaying 541 - 560 of 716 articles
When we sip our morning coffee or snack on a piece of chocolate, we hardly think about how these products came to us. The answer is: they were transported by sea. In fact, pretty much all the goods we…
The ocean, seen from a beach or from a plane, seems vast, ancient and invulnerable. It’s hard to imagine that 90% of life on earth lives below the waves, across 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water and…
Not long after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world’s attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost…
Over the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to the potentially strong El Niño event brewing in the Pacific Ocean. But there is also the potential for an emerging climate phenomenon in the…
As Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority and the federal environment minister Greg Hunt mull the question of whether to let the state government resume its controversial shark cull next…
The decomposing remains of large fish can feed a marine community for weeks, or even months. A team of British researchers…
The high seas cover about 50% of Earth’s surface and host a major share of the world’s biodiversity, but remain largely ungoverned. With increasing threats to open ocean ecosystems, now more than ever…
Carl Sagan’s description of our planet as a “pale blue dot” captured two important elements about the Earth: its loneliness in the enormity of space, and the ocean’s overwhelming dominance of the planet…
Scientists are meeting this week in Yokohama, Japan, to finalise and approve the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II – the part of the IPCC process that…
The scent that guides sea birds towards their prey could also be helping to cool our climate. Researchers have found that…
Understanding the Southern Ocean’s nutrient cycle could help experts made more accurate global climate predictions, according…
Dramatic changes in the eastern Indian Ocean food web are threatening the viability of the flesh-footed shearwater (a medium-sized…
When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand out. I had spent the afternoon on a small dingy off the coast of Durban…
An international team of marine scientists has calculated that the global biomass of fish is 30 times more than previously…
The “pause” in global warming since 2001 can be explained by the discovery of unusually strong winds in the Pacific, climatologists have found. Global surface air temperatures have more or less flatlined…
Some of the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats are being failed by the conservation orders put in place to protect them. As the Environmental Audit Committee meets to discuss how it will implement…
Each square kilometre of Australian sea surface water is contaminated by around 4,000 pieces of tiny plastics, according to our study published today in journal PLOS ONE and data repository Figshare. These…
Water in a 35 million year old impact crater off the Atlantic coast of North America has been found to be twice as salty…
In an emotional article making waves on social media at the moment, yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen reports seeing no marine life at sea, only floating rubbish, while sailing across the Pacific. He concludes…
Top contributors
-
Professor, The University of Queensland
-
Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
-
Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
-
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
-
Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
-
Professor of Marine Botany, The University of Western Australia
-
Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
-
Winthrop Professor, Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
-
Faculty Research Associate in Marine Biology, Arizona State University
-
Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
-
Senior Principal Research Scientist - Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
-
Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz
-
Associate Professor of Climate Science, Brandeis University
-
Professor of Marine Biology and Conservation, Bournemouth University
