The warming of Atlantic Ocean waters in recent decades is largely due to declines in airborne dust from African deserts and lower volcanic emissions, a new study suggests
Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in United States territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released recently.
New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
An international fund that aids sustainable environment projects has committed US$63 million to help preserve Southeast Asia's Coral Triangle from overfishing and climate change.
A team of international scientists is hoping to unlock some of the secrets of the deep Southern Ocean, and the effects of climate change, using a state-of-the-art, unmanned submersible
New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events