Submarines need to operate stealthily and quietly. In some areas, warming waters and changing salinity levels could make that easier.

Freshwater salinization is rising due to pollution and ocean intrusion, threatening water supplies, agriculture, and ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

The Cool Down further explains how millions of people living in and around Philadelphia — as well as in parts of New Jersey – depend on the river for drinking water. Too much seawater — and the salt ...

Pacific oysters are adapting to less salty waters and may soon spread into the Baltic Sea, aided by warmer seas and genetic ...

The invasive Pacific oyster have adapted to life in less salty seas and are reproducing off the coast of Skåne, although ...