Scientists reveal two previously unknown mechanisms for Antarctic ice shelf melting

If these gigantic ice shelves disintegrated, they would raise the global sea level by 58 meters, nearly 200 feet. Read More

Developing underwater robots to venture deep below polar ice

On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick ... Read More

How long do we have until sea level rise swallows coastal cities? This fleet of ocean robots will help find out

A team of NASA scientists is developing autonomous robots able to go where humans cannot, beneath Antarctica’s huge ice shelves to better understand how rapidly the ice is melting ... Read More

Oceanography News

Aug. 21, 2024 — A new study addresses the lack of data on how much human-generated carbon dioxide is present in coastal oceans -- the saltwater ecosystems that link the land and sea. Capturing ... Read More

Farmers' Almanac releases winter forecast for 2024-2025

WASHINGTON — The Farmers' Almanac, which has provided weather guidance for more than 200 years, is predicting a wet and windy winter for 2024 and 2025. The forecast, which covers 16 months of ... Read More

Sea Life News

Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery about how sea stars (commonly known as starfish) manage to survive predatory attacks by shedding their own limbs. The team has ... Read More

New species of Antarctic dragonfish highlights its threatened ecosystem

"We hypothesize that a population of dragonfishes may have become isolated within deep trenches under glaciers, surviving on food pushed in by the moving ice. Once the glaciers retreated ... Read More