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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Lincoln have measured how stiff the inside of a sinking ocean particle is, and report that the stiffer ones hold bacteria…
Shallow-water surveys off the Bazaruto Archipelago in Mozambique have found reefs made of peat. The peat is what is left of coastal swamps and forests that rising seas drowned, and it now carries…
Wind-driven surface currents in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened by 3.8% per decade, plus or minus 1.7 points, from 2003 to 2022, according to drifting-buoy measurements reported Oct. 11, 2026, in…
The Delta Flume at Deltares in Delft is a concrete canal 300 meters long, and in February and March 2024 a Dutch team filled it with a salt marsh: blocks of turf cut from the Frisian coast, laid out…
A high-resolution computer model of how water moves through the Venice Lagoon projects that the city's Mose flood barriers would close about 248 days a year by 2095–2099 on a high-emissions pathway,…
Researchers working at a natural carbon dioxide vent off the Italian island of Ischia have put a measured value on the seawater acidity at which seafloor shell builders give way: pH 7.7. Below it,…
An autonomous ocean glider measured chlorophyll from the sea surface down through the water column during a marine heatwave in June 2023, and the two depths did not behave alike: the surface rise was…
Diatoms grown for more than 1,000 generations in acidified seawater grew faster and fixed more carbon than lines kept at today's carbon dioxide level, but carried less phosphorus in their cells where…
Catches of Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, have collapsed, and a study of observations from 1993 to 2025 attributes the loss to three…
A study published Oct. 2 in Communications Earth & Environment reports a link between phytoplankton blooms in the high-latitude North Atlantic and how much central Europe's vegetation grows over the…
Nature Communications published a catalog of the viruses living in the deep-sea sediment of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone on Sept. 29, 2026, and its authors report that more than 99% of the…
The European Union's Copernicus Marine Service published the 10th edition of its annual open-access Ocean State Report Sept. 30, 2026, adding 18 new peer-reviewed chapters on the state of the global…