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A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity ...

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Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

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Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

How much was the ocean damaged as a recent of the wildfires in Los Angeles? That's what scientists are trying to find out now.