The Chesapeake Bay is the continental United States' largest estuary, spanning approximately 320 kilometers (200 miles) ...

On our planet, the cycle and balance of carbon from reservoir to reservoir is a matter of life or death. Carbon moves from ...

The local wisdom of sustainable fishing practices shows that real ocean solutions come from those often excluded from ...

THEY may not have won, but the robotics club at Erica Primary School in Belhar learned lots at last weekend's the Open Africa ...

The pH of coastal waterways such as the ... Although rising carbon dioxide levels have led to ocean acidification, land use changes and chemical weathering from acid rain have made inland rivers ...

Moreover, more than a third of fish stocks suffer overfishing, while ocean acidification, rising sea levels and the destruction of marine ecosystems gain pace, as direct consequences of climate change ...

Bruce Benton presented the following update during the Earth Day events on two major grants that are dramatically strengthening green transportation on Orcas Island.

As the ocean warms it expands, causing sea levels to rise. This thermal expansion ... processes and the effects of vertical land motion. The acidification of the oceans around Australia continues (pH ...

Scientists call ocean acidification "the other carbon problem." When the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it raises the pH of the water making it acidic. That shift makes sea ...

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...