As far as we know, life needs water. Due to this simple truth, astronomers and astrobiologists have naturally focused their efforts on identifying exoplanets that might harbor liquid oceans. Water in its liquid form can exist on a planet’s surface, where direct heat from its host star can keep the […]
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Chlorophyll colors water from the lake slightly green. Elizabeth Swanner, CC BY-ND At Deming Lake, my colleagues and I pay special attention to the water layer where the chlorophyll readings jump. Chlorophyll is the pigment that makes plants green. It harnesses sunlight energy to turn water and carbon dioxide into […]
CNN — Two hurricanes will strike land this weekend by two different ocean basins – Tammy in the Atlantic and Norma in the eastern Pacific. Neither are a threat to the US, but Norma has triggered hurricane warnings for Mexico, including the popular resort town of Cabo San Lucas, and […]
Over the last 25 years, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets have released a staggering 7.5 trillion tonnes of water into the ocean, a study has revealed. Analyzing over 100,000 satellite radar images, researchers from the University of Leeds discovered a steady erosion of the continent’s ice sheets, with over 40 per […]
A volume of seawater equivalent to roughly 5,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools has been skimmed clean of microplastics and other pollution — thanks to a small start-up founded by two surfers in Australia. According to the latest annual report from their company, Seabin, the start-up’s marine clean-up and tracking operations in […]
Satellite images have confirmed that the world’s oceans have become slightly greener. Scientists suspect climate change is the reason. In a recent study published in Nature, researchers in the United Kingdom and the United States found that nearly 60 percent of the Earth’s ocean surface has undergone a significant change […]
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The ultimate sweater weather fest is almost upon us. From Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, the annual Oceans Calling Festival is returning to […]
An artist’s illustration of Makemake NASA, ESA, and A. Parker Icy rocks in the outer solar system might have unexpected subsurface oceans. Eris and Makemake are both dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt – the ring of frozen objects that encircles our solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit – and new […]