Groundwater input to coral reefs directly affects water chemistry and triggers a cascade of changes in the coastal ecosystem, according to a new study led by University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa ...

The deep-sea environment comprises a wealth of distinct ecosystems, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and subsurface habitats. A multitude of bacteria and archaea live in these distant niches ...

Without the ocean, life on Earth would not have even been possible. All life originally came from the sea and it was roughly 1 billion years after life first appeared that the first land-dwelling ...

Ocean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean ...