Atlantic hurricane season approaches, unusually cool sea surface temperatures, in the neighborhood of 2 °F below last year’s ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A large ice-free area appeared above Maud Rise in the Southern Ocean and remained open for several weeks. Known as a polynya, ...

A hole appeared in Antarctica in 2017, leaving NASA scientists stumped. However, they soon learned that this was not the ...

Scientists identified it as a polynya. The Weddell Gyre, storms, and atmospheric rivers contributed. Warm water melted the ice from below. Ekman transport also played a role. The hole refroze in ...

Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the ocean, in the air, in everything we eat from meats to veggies and fruits and even in the clothes we wear. Most people know about plastic straws and bags, but ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

"Hawaii is on the frontlines of the plastic crisis, as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre collects marine debris and delivers [it] to our shorelines—this is debris from countries across the Pacific, ...

How Ottawa pitted First Nations and traditional fishing communities against one another and sparked a war in Atlantic Canada ...