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Scientists warn that the world's sea ice - the frozen ocean water at the North and South Poles - has plunged to a record low.

Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks.Now, a new study, published Wednesday<a class="excerpt-read-more" h ...

Geomagnetic storms are capable of sparking beautiful displays of the Northern Lights across our night sky. However, there is a potential danger behind that beauty, especially now, with solar activity ...

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

A Constant Vigil Satellites operate as the vigilant eyes in the sky, tirelessly orbiting the Earth to keep a watchful gaze on ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

The Antarctic ice-shelves – ice flowing off the Antarctic continent, rather than sea-ice – appears to have had a particularly extreme season of surface melting ... with cold winter temperatures ...

7-day sea surface temperatures forecasts are available in the Ocean Forecast Map Viewer. These forecasts are calculated using a full 3D ocean model. Ocean currents describe the movement of water from ...

Annual and seasonal mean sea surface temperature (SST) trend maps are available for the Australian region for periods starting at the beginning of each decade from 1900 to 1970 to near present.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

"Atmospheric conditions in December and January looked like they were strongly promoting surface ... cold winter temperatures helping the oceans to freeze over. But current sea-ice extent is ...