Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and ...

In the ocean floor, the order of depletion of microbial electron acceptors is usually oxygen first, then nitrate, oxidized manganese and iron minerals, then sulphate and finally bicarbonate 4.

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Once upon a time, it was thought by many, most, and maybe all of us humanoids that the sea was big enough to swallow and ...