Oceans 'soaking up less CO2'
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Scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world's oceans.
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A large network of waterways helps carry ice from the center of Antarctica to the ocean, scientists say, in a finding that may help clarify how global warming will affect the world's sea levels.
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Climate scientists tell a conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Drifting icebergs are "eco-hotspots" enabling surrounding waters to absorb more CO2, a study finds.
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The genetic map of a type of teeny-weeny ocean algae could have a big impact on how scientists try to protect the Earth&#39;s oceans from greenhouse gases.
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Shrinking ice sheets and melting glaciers are making northern seas less salty, researchers say.
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A changing climate is forcing some of Britain's less heralded marine lifeforms to move, research shows.
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A key food source for Antarctic seals, whales and penguins has declined about 80 percent since the 1970s in ocean waters near the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers report.
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A simple sea creature could help to address the problem of global warming, a scientist claims.
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The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world's seas warm, new NASA satellite data show. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world's marine life.
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Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" is soaking up less CO2 than it was expected to.
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More than 40% of world's oceans heavily affected by fishing, climate change and pollution, study finds
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Some coral reefs may be protected from global warming by a natural thermostat that regulates sea-surface temperatures in the open ocean, researchers said Wednesday.
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Sea level rise projections are under-estimating the impact of climate change on the oceans, a study suggest.
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The UK's chief scientist, Sir David King, says petroleum companies should store more carbon dioxide in ageing oil wells.
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The oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, long a subject of scrutiny by scientists, is only now becoming less of a mystery.
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A rise in the temperature of the world's oceans is often accompanied by mass extinctions, according to a new statistical study of fossil records.