Beneath the sunlit surface of the open ocean, trillions of bacteria are quietly producing methane in waters long assumed to ...

Scientists have discovered that methane in the open ocean is produced by microbes under nutrient-poor conditions, solving a ...

The world's oceans may be quietly amplifying climate change in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. In a new ...

The Arctic region is experiencing climate change at a much faster rate than the rest of the world. Melting ice sheets, runoff from thawing permafrost and other factors are rapidly changing the ...

The hydrothermal vent fluids from the Gorda Ridge spreading center in the northeast Pacific Ocean create a biological hub of activity in the deep sea. There, in the dark ocean, a unique food web ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

URochester scientists identify how warming oceans may trigger increased methane emissions, adding a key insight for current ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding that could reshape how scientists and manufacturers think about the fate of ...

Researchers analyzed archival samples of bacteria and archaea populations taken from the Beaufort Sea, bordering northwest Canada and Alaska. The samples were collected between 2004 and 2012, a period ...