A new underwater energy storage system could help solve renewable power’s biggest challenge of storing excess electricity.

New geochemical sleuthing has pushed Earth’s climate record into almost unimaginable territory, revealing seawater that once ...

The concentration of salt in the ocean doesn’t change much, so plant and animal life don’t have anything to worry about, ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are experiencing unprecedented warming that scientists warn could accelerate disruptions to ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs. Scientists have solved a 66 million-year-old mystery, explaining how Earth ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floor. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As global temperatures rise, our oceans are heating up. Scientists recently found that warmer ocean temperatures are leading to ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...