Changes in continental water stores, largely human-induced, affect sea level. Better hydrological models and observations could clarify the land's role in sea-level variations. Each of the ...

In densely populated coastal areas, reactions of polluted air with sea salt aerosol from the ocean can lead to high surface ozone levels that affect air quality. Chlorine has become infamous for ...

Scientists have discovered that loggerhead sea turtles can learn and remember the unique magnetic signatures of different ...

The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Recreational sailors in the vicinity of the Florida Keys made an astonishing discovery of 65 pounds of cocaine floating on the ocean surface, as confirmed by authorities this week. While on a ...

Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic “map” in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That’s according to new research published ...

In Turtle Beach, a documentary from The Nature of Things, cameraman Hugo Kitching waits (very) patiently in Ostional, Costa Rica, for olive ridley sea turtles to arrive en masse to nest — a ...