Ocean floor disintegrating rapdily due to manmade CO2

Excess carbon dioxide in the sea is using all the seafloor calcite that has helped maintain pH levels for millennia, says the study published in&…

Amidst the El Niño buzz, Pacific Ocean cools down

While the world awaits El Niño, the 'Little Boy' has played a mischief which has led to a delay in its arrival

Insistence on dollar payments delays ocean power project

A US firm proposing to set up a project off the Tamil Nadu coast that will supply electricity and potable water from the ocean wants to be paid …

Save our seas

The UN's first conference to save the oceans is a grand show of intent to reset our relationship with the largest sink of carbon dioxide and the …

Ancient algae play a role in building a healthy marine ecosystem: Study

Climate change is a major reason for the development, according to study

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

The great rift: Africa’s splitting plates could give birth to a new ocean, but with consequences

Evacuation of people and the potential loss of lives will be an unfortunate cost of this natural phenomenon

Why the monsoon stalled in 2021: Blame it on anomalous world weather

A host of factors including temperature anomalies, the Madden Julian Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole are responsible

Does a new era of bleaching beckon for Indian Ocean coral reefs?

The British overseas territory faces an environmental crisis

Arctic Sea ice saw largest decline in 41 years in July 2019: NCPOR

Loss of ice cover in the Arctic Sea has had strong effects on components of climate system, such as reduction of heat and momentum, water vapour &…

Plant-like bacteria

The coast is not clear

A new report paints a grim picture of the world's coastal areas

Coral from current

Tell me where

The underground discharge of water and minerals to oceans is now known to be much more significant. This considerably reduces the weightage given …

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Troubled waters

Oceans Great Dying 2.0: Heatwaves sweep the oceans

Marine heatwaves hit the western Indian Ocean and the northern Bay of Bengal the most; will be a permanent feature by end of the century  

Warm Arctic waves, La Niña to blame for early heat waves, depressions: Experts

If the interaction between La Niña and the warm Arctic is happening, it is an impact of global warming

Indian Ocean as rich archive of history — above and below the water line

In the age of rising sea levels and climate change, all that is important to learn more about the sea from an ecological point of view

The magnetic North Pole is shifting and that too very rapidly

There is unusual activity at the North Pole. The magnetic north pole is sliding away from the Arctic region of Canada into Siberia. It has always …

Increasing ocean acidity will hit the marine food chain, says study

Increasing acidification impacts phytoplankton, which in turn will drastically affect the fish population

Impact of ocean warming on monsoon

Roxy Mathew Koll from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune talks about the effects of ocean warming on the Indian Monsoons.

Rulers of the waves

Simple salmon

Scottish environmentalists oppose use of chemicals to control sea lice and favour organic salmon

Japan volcano that exploded in mid-August poses risk to ships, planes

Ash plume of Fukutoku-Okanoba higher than planes’ normal altitude; pumice blown by eruption poses hazards for ship hulls