Oceanography News

The world is now one step closer to saving the endangered leatherback turtle. Stanford researcher George Shillinger led the first large data set tracking of the turtles, and the findings, published this week, ...

After the National Institute of Oceanography brought to the fore the damage to the Mandovi bridge due to barge collision, the Public Works Department is learnt to be sitting tight with yet another weakened ...

AEROBIC BREAKDOWN of methylphosphonate into methane by marine microbes may account for high levels of methane found in ocean surface waters, according to a new report in Nature Geoscience .

It's summertime and people are flocking to the coasts around the country. But when summer storms arrive, it's not only beach-goers who are affected; the rains can also have an impact on living creatures far ...

It's summertime and people are flocking to the coasts around the country. But when summer storms arrive, it's not only beach-goers who are affected; the rains can also have an impact on living creatures far ...

Marine life deep beneath our oceans and lakes is becoming more dependent on NASA for survival because of an increase in something called 'dead zones.' On 9NEWS 5 a.m. we spoke with Oceanographer David Adamec ...

SHANGHAI. July 12. KAZINFORM. With hundreds waving goodbye on the dock, an ultra-modern icebreaker left the eastern Shanghai port on Friday morning, marking the start of China's third scientific expedition to ...

The nation's second oldest national wildlife refuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is in danger of being lost unless the islands are restored, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said ...

Adding iron to the seabed to promote increased growth of microscopic plants is the latest solution to the environmental dilemma.

The head of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium will receive $50,000 and a gold medal for her research about the dead zone that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico.

Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean, according to researcher by scientists at the University ...

Forget about getting a building named after yourself. The cash-strapped Scripps Institution of Oceanography is offering what might be an even better deal to someone looking to make a mark in history: A rare ...

Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, emissions of carbon dioxide by human activity have begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean, according to research by scientists at the ...

Recognition has spread that carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere could lead to warmer global temperatures and extremes in weather.

The earth will little note nor long remember what we do to it--at least over the course of its own grand time scale rather than our brief, urgent one.

Frank Kramer of Poway, shown on his boat, Drifter, in Mission Bay, said that even though he won Weather Watch's Precipitation Prediction Contest, he's disappointed it didn't rain more.

The Pacific Coast is becoming saturated with carbon dioxide -- the major greenhouse gas -- making ocean waters more acidic and threatening a wide variety of marine organisms from Canada to Mexico, government ...

A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet.

Stanford, CA- It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ...

Nova Scotia lobster fishermen who claim inshore scallop draggers are damaging their catch were expected to discuss their concerns Thursday with their local MP.