A colorful coral reef, viewed from just beneath the surface of the ocean. A winding river delta, seen from far up in the sky.

A mesmerizing new visualization of ocean currents from NASA has been compared to the Starry Night painting of Van Gogh.

Images of an underwater sculpture near Thailand's Koh Tao island have been shared around the world in social media posts that ...

A sequel to the popular first version from 2011, the new visualization now shows currents not just at the water's surface.

In addition to the Ocean Weather real-time data Lab, USM’s Division of Marine Science houses several in situ observation support platforms, including gliders, the R/V Lemoyne, a weather buoy, CODAR ...

Cosmic origins: Beryllium-10 is produced in the upper atmosphere and eventually incorporated into ferromanganese crusts in the deep ocean. Around 10 million years ago, the amount deposited in these ...

The blooms that produce the toxin result from a specific type of algae. Once the toxin is produced, smaller fish can eat the algae. Bigger animals like sea lions can then become sick from the ...

An abalone farm’s scientific team routinely checks for signs of harmful algae in incoming seawater; however, ocean colour maps from satellite data can now track algal blooms before they even ...

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A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held in Nice, France, in June, could help to redefine global ocean governance. But the conference’s political statement — the UNOC3 ...

This striking satellite image, taken from Google Maps in 2021, shows a bizarre, jet-black, triangular structure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. At the time, the mysterious object, which was ...