Americans are skeptical of the term environmentalist, so a new report from Aquarium of the Pacific deals with ‘wonder and respect and stewardship’ for sea animals and the ocean.

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise.

Scotland’s seabird populations are continuing to decline as threats including climate change and avian flu take their toll but some species are showing signs of recovery, statistics show. The figures, ...

A massive research project will investigate the role of icebergs in driving melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a process that could trigger a catastrophic collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturn ...

All in all, these records show that Earth's global average temperature has increased by about 1.8 F (1 C) since the industrial revolution. Climate change has sped up in the past few decades, with the ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

This article comes paired with its counterpart on class-informed climate politics. It can be read as a prequel to it or ...

Marine heatwaves can devastate our oceans. Is there a way to prevent them? What are marine heatwaves and why are they so dangerous?

The current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has drawn increasing scrutiny as climate ...

Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

Referring to the spread of warm waters from the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean due to climate change, Atlantification progressively raises the temperature and salt concentration of the latter ocean, and ...