Oceans - Eos

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Trump Administration to Speed Up Permitting for Deep Sea Mining, Even Beyond U.S. Boundaries

Plastic Debris Helps Oil Residues Reach Farther Across the Ocean

Marine Snow Grows Faster and Fluffier as It Sinks

AI Sheds Light on Hard-to-Study Ocean Currents

currents

coral reefs

ocean worlds

Coral Reefs

Preserving Corals to Study the Past and Document the Present

Could Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Help Save Corals from Bleaching?

A Cryobank Network Grows in the Coral Triangle

As Seas Rise, Corals Can’t Keep Up

“Pretty much everyone agrees that there have been ice shelves in the Arctic Ocean. The question is, When exactly did they exist, for how long, and where?”
leonid polyak, Arctic Ice Shelf Theory Challenged by Ancient Algae

OCEANS ARCHIVE

Melting Glaciers Mix Up Waters More Than We Thought

Existing theory underestimates the mixing of freshwater and seawater by up to 50%.

by Saima May Sidik

In 2025, the Ocean Stored a Record-Breaking Amount of Heat, Again

The ocean soaked up more heat last year than any year since modern measurements began around 1960, according to a new analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Science.

by Grace van Deelen

New River Chemistry Insights May Boost Coastal Ocean Modeling

By more realistically accounting for river inputs, researchers reduced overestimation of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by coastal waters.

by Sarah Stanley

The Northern Sargasso Sea Has Lost Much of Its Namesake Algae

There’s less than a tenth as much Sargassum as there was a few years ago, a shift that may be linked to increasing sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.

by Katherine Kornei

What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses

Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair of modeling studies examines how such a collapse could affect dissolved inorganic carbon and carbon isotopes in Earth’s oceans.

by Rebecca Owen

Science Escapes Largest Cuts in Latest Budget Bills

Today, top appropriators in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives released a three-bill appropriations package for fiscal year 2026 (FY26) that largely rejects drastic cuts to federal science budgets that President Trump proposed last year.

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier

How a Move to the Shallows 300,000 Years Ago Drove a Phytoplankton Bloom

And what that could mean for today’s ocean.

by Nathaniel Scharping

Las olas de calor marinas lentifican el flujo de carbono de los océanos

Cuando el plancton se encuentra en agua caliente, la materia orgánica se estanca en la superficie e interrumpe el transporte de carbono hacia el fondo océanico.

by Mack Baysinger

Marine Heat Waves Can Exacerbate Heat and Humidity over Land

Researchers found the unprecedented 2023 East Asian marine heat wave increased land temperatures and humidity by up to 50%.

by Sarah Derouin

New Eyes on One of the Planet’s Largest Submarine Landslides

Researchers have mapped the ancient Stad Slide off the coast of Norway to better understand what triggered it, and the hunt is on for the tsunami it might have unleashed.