Melting sea ice changes not only how much light enters the ocean, but also its color, disrupting marine photosynthesis and ...

Without an ice layer on the ocean's surface, the light penetrating the waters changes, affecting the type of algae and ...

May 8, 2025 — A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not just those on the coasts, where relative sea level is a ...

Researchers searched for algae in samples from 198 locations in the Robert Island ice cap in Antarctica. Credit: Alex Thomson Alex Thomson, an algal ecologist with the Scottish Association for ...

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

Megalodons were fierce apex predators that would have preyed on a variety of fish and marine mammals. But that’s not all ...

He lived a long, happy life and passed away at 15. 2.Cloud iridescence is SO cool — but unfortunately very, very rare. 3.This ...

The emperor penguin is a wonder of adaptation, thriving in the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica. These sociable birds huddle ... While technically not an “animal”, sea ice algae are vital organisms ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

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