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Marine survival expert rates 9 ocean survival scenes in movies and TV
The UK military's chief survival instructor, John Hudson, looks at nine sea-based survival scenes f…
Ju Shardlow  Â
America's new climate 'normal' is hotter, wetter, and more extreme
The country's new normal temperature is a full degree hotter than it was only two decades ago, acco…
Erin Snodgrass  Â
Hurricane Ian grew from a tropical storm to a Category 3 storm in a single day. That's happening more often as oceans warm.
Ian started one day as a tropical storm and the next as a Category 3 hurricane. Cyclones can only g…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
A dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter has a salty ocean beneath its surface, making it a contender for alien life
"Ceres is the latest evidence that our solar system is filled with ancient habitable environments,"…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
Climate disasters in the US broke records in 2020. Scientists may now know why: Earth was the hottest it has ever been.
2020 was likely the hottest year ever on Earth. A warming climate is linked to more intense hurrica…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…  Â
A shocking image from space shows a record 5 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin at the same time
The satellite image also shows smoke swirling across the US from wildfires in California, Oregon, a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
Mumbai rainfalls are become extreme because of warm ocean temperatures
Scientists on Thursday explained the extreme rainfall event in Mumbai to an anomaly that will becom…
Record heat in the Arctic is setting the stage for a different kind of conflict
Rising heat and shrinking ice are opening the Arctic to more ships, but those changes also have imp…
Christopher Woody  Â
What would happen if Earth became 2 degrees warmer
For sea life, the situation is more dire. Warmer oceans will do irreversible damage to 99% of coral…
Uma Sharma,Jessica Orwig  Â
Pluto has a heart of ice that might not be so frozen after all
Pluto, a planet that used to be one of the big nine, might have oceans under its surface.
A dangerous flesh-eating bacteria is gaining a larger foothold in the US as the oceans warm
According to the authors of the case report, climate change is partially responsible for the growin…
Aylin Woodward  Â
Much of the US could see a warmer-than-average winter season - here's the forecast for your region
And not every forecaster is expecting La Niña. The Old Farmer's Almanac, a controversial source tha…
Hilary Brueck,Anaele Pelisson  Â
The world's oceans are in even worse shape than we thought
Coral reefs are the most biodiverse environments in the ocean. But according to one of the new pape…
Kevin Loria  Â
Why the East Coast is warmer than the West Coast in the middle of December
We're currently in one of the strongest El Niño years on record. El Niño, a weather pattern th…
Lydia Ramsey  Â
Melting ice is slowing down the Atlantic ocean's circulation system. Yes, that's similar to what happens in 'The Day After Tomorrow.'
But such an occurrence would require a huge amount of melt water - the past distortions Muschitiell…
Aylin Woodward  Â
The film 'The Day After Tomorrow' foretold a real and troubling trend: The ocean's water-circulation system is weakening
To do their analysis, Muschitiello and his team looked at core samples drilled from the bottom of t…
Aylin Woodward  Â
We've put the heat equivalent of 3.6 billion Hiroshima bomb explosions into the oceans. The water was hotter last year than ever in recorded history.
That's devastating for coral reefs, since higher temperatures prompt coral bleaching - a phenomenon…
Aylin Woodward  Â
Freakishly warm ocean water is a major reason why Hurricane Michael became the strongest storm in decades
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters in May, scientists tracked 30 years of tropica…
Hilary Brueck  Â
The oceans are heating up 40% faster than scientists realized - which means we should prepare for more disastrous flooding and storms
One of the biggest challenges in measuring ocean temperatures, however, is gathering enough data, s…
Aylin Woodward  Â
In the next few decades, fish in huge swaths of the ocean could be struggling to breathe
There are naturally some parts of the ocean that have less oxygen in them. But as climate change ge…