Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...

Across the globe, oceans are acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, threatening coral reefs and many other marine organisms. A new study, led by oceanographers at the University ...

The world's top marine scientists are meeting this week in Australia to discuss what many are calling the greatest threat so far to the survival of our oceans - acidification. It s a problem that s ...

Tully Rohrer, Lucie Knor, Fernando Pacheco, Daniel Fitzgerald with the CTD Rosette that collects Hawai‘i Ocean Time-series water samples. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere enters the ocean at the ...

Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They’re older than the first trees, the North Star, and even the rings of Saturn. They’ve seen and been through it all — but the ...

Humans are gambling the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached. A team of global ...