Microbes in tropical ocean waters lead to increased carbon uptake

A new pathway for methane formation in the oceans has been discovered, with significant potential for advancing our understanding of greenhouse gas production on Earth, scientists believe.

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth's low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate.

More than 40 percent of the world's oceans are heavily affected by human activities, and few if any areas remain untouched, according to the first global-scale study of human influence on marine ecosystems.

Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across the ocean floor, Earth's system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet: in plate-tectonic movements, heat flow from the interior, and the chemistry of rock, water and air.

A really inconvenient truth: divorce increases the environmental footprint of families

California energy regulators adopted a ruling requiring that all homes built after 2020 to be energy neutral...

Ecological impacts of genetically engineered corn are particularly important because of increased corn demand created by biofuels production

Discovery of salamander hybrids has important implications for evolution and conservation

Sulfur, nitrogen emissions play role in changing chemistry near coast.

A drastic change in the climate of tropical Africa may have significantly driven early human evolution, an international team of scientists has found.

Jeopardizes Asian water supplies, contributes to Himalayan glacier melt

Climate change is suspected cause

Ice loss from glaciers and ice will cause a greater rise in sea level sooner than expected

Crater Lake event may lead to development of hazards assessment tool

Icebergs hold trapped terrestrial...

Northern forests play a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought.

... land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that arrived on a sea voyage...

Scientists will measure air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen gas

Research explains how ocean currents carried seeds from South...

Researchers conclusively link disease severity and ocean temperature