“If you’ve been to the ocean, or if you have experienced weather, you’ve been impacted by NOAA in some way,” said Tom Di Liberto, a climate scientist and former public affairs specialist ...

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

An extraordinary jump in ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 was at the extreme end of expectations from global warming and would have been "practically impossible" without climate change ...

Deep in the ocean there are over 250,000 different species of animal! However, many of these creatures are in trouble because of the pollution and waste that humans have produced. Don’t worry ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in the ocean and how they survive underwater? Well, pack your swimsuit, we're off to find out! Look at all these fish! Big fish! Small fish!

Global warming is causing alterations in ocean chemistry and many oceanic processes, and it is threatening many species of marine animals that cannot cope with higher temperatures. Overfishing is ...

Density in particular is an important property in ocean science because small spatial changes in density result in spatial variations in pressure at a given depth, which in turn drive the ocean ...