Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

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"This is just the beginning." Scientists issue warning after making disturbing discovery deep inside sea caves: 'What we saw ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests ...

Global efforts to reduce pollution will not be enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. We ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Biological carbon pumping’ is a natural process by which an ocean transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

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