The world's top marine scientists are meeting this week in Australia to discuss what many are calling the greatest threat so far to the survival of our oceans - acidification. It s a problem that s ...

Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways to protect shellfish in the Pacific Northwest, although Trump budget cuts may thwart their efforts. Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways ...

“The signs of the ocean in distress are all around us”, said Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Ocean, at the conference in Nice, France last week.

The West Coast is one of the hardest-hit areas by ocean acidification. The mass media’s blind spot on Trump’s Venezuela ...

Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to a new study. The planetary boundary for ocean acidification is defined as ...

FILE - Oyster farming at Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Ore., in this 2020 file photo. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University ...

The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

New research from China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans, making the bivalves both an important food source and a potential tool in the fight against climate ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Eighteen years ago, farmed oyster larvae began disappearing in mass die-offs, mystifying hatchery managers in the Pacific Northwest and threatening a thriving part of the region’s economy. Up to 90%of ...