Ocean Research

Ocean Research Articles

98 article(s) in this category.

Crossing Borders: How Ocean Currents, Typhoons, and Tsunami Debris Drift Across the Pacific
Marine Environmental Issues

Crossing Borders: How Ocean Currents, Typhoons, and Tsunami Debris Drift Across the Pacific

2026-08-28

What Are Cold Seeps? Chemosynthetic Communities Off Japan and How They Differ From Hydrothermal Vents
Marine Biology

What Are Cold Seeps? Chemosynthetic Communities Off Japan and How They Differ From Hydrothermal Vents

2026-08-26

Why Does Whaling Divide the World? Japan's IWC Withdrawal and the Fight Over Resource Management
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Does Whaling Divide the World? Japan's IWC Withdrawal and the Fight Over Resource Management

2026-08-26

Why Can Sea Stars Regrow Their Arms? The Science of Stem Cells and Regeneration Conditions
Marine Biology

Why Can Sea Stars Regrow Their Arms? The Science of Stem Cells and Regeneration Conditions

2026-08-26

Why Barnacles Never Let Go: The Natural Glue That Cures Underwater, Its Cost to Shipping, and Its Medical Payoff
Marine Biology

Why Barnacles Never Let Go: The Natural Glue That Cures Underwater, Its Cost to Shipping, and Its Medical Payoff

2026-08-22

Why Japan Filled In Its Tidal Flats: 33,000 Hectares Lost, and What Remains in Tokyo Bay and the Ariake Sea
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Japan Filled In Its Tidal Flats: 33,000 Hectares Lost, and What Remains in Tokyo Bay and the Ariake Sea

2026-08-15

Why Atolls Are Shaped Like Rings: Darwin's Subsidence Theory and the Drill Cores That Proved It
Coral

Why Atolls Are Shaped Like Rings: Darwin's Subsidence Theory and the Drill Cores That Proved It

2026-08-15

The Coral Microbiome: How Microbes Protect Corals and the Probiotics Fighting Bleaching
Coral

The Coral Microbiome: How Microbes Protect Corals and the Probiotics Fighting Bleaching

2026-08-15

Why Is the Thermohaline Circulation (AMOC) Weakening? The Ocean's Great Conveyor Belt and the Truth Behind Climate Catastrophe Scenarios
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Is the Thermohaline Circulation (AMOC) Weakening? The Ocean's Great Conveyor Belt and the Truth Behind Climate Catastrophe Scenarios

2026-08-14

What Happens When Antarctic Ice Melts: Sea Ice Loss, Ice Shelf Collapse, Ecosystems and Sea Level
Marine Environmental Issues

What Happens When Antarctic Ice Melts: Sea Ice Loss, Ice Shelf Collapse, Ecosystems and Sea Level

2026-08-14

Microfibres Released by Laundry: Hundreds of Thousands of Plastic Fibres per Wash and What Households Can Do
Marine Environmental Issues

Microfibres Released by Laundry: Hundreds of Thousands of Plastic Fibres per Wash and What Households Can Do

2026-08-14

Why Can We Still Eat Eel, an Endangered Species? The State of the Resource and Choices for the Future
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Can We Still Eat Eel, an Endangered Species? The State of the Resource and Choices for the Future

2026-08-13

What Is IUU Fishing? Up to 26 Million Tonnes Stolen a Year, and How Satellites and Law Fight Back
Marine Environmental Issues

What Is IUU Fishing? Up to 26 Million Tonnes Stolen a Year, and How Satellites and Law Fight Back

2026-08-13

Is the Ocean Carbon Sink Reaching Its Limit? The Three Pumps and the Signs of Weakening
Marine Environmental Issues

Is the Ocean Carbon Sink Reaching Its Limit? The Three Pumps and the Signs of Weakening

2026-08-13

The Environmental Impact of Aquaculture: Uneaten Feed, Antibiotics, Fishmeal, and the Frontier of Sustainable Fish Farming
Marine Environmental Issues

The Environmental Impact of Aquaculture: Uneaten Feed, Antibiotics, Fishmeal, and the Frontier of Sustainable Fish Farming

2026-08-12

How Dams Cause Coastal Erosion: Trapped Sediment, Vanishing Beaches, and the Push to Return Sand to the Sea
Marine Environmental Issues

How Dams Cause Coastal Erosion: Trapped Sediment, Vanishing Beaches, and the Push to Return Sand to the Sea

2026-08-12

What Is Deep-Sea Mining? The Race for Rare Metals and Its Irreversible Impact on Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Marine Environmental Issues

What Is Deep-Sea Mining? The Race for Rare Metals and Its Irreversible Impact on Deep-Sea Ecosystems

2026-08-12

How Sand Mining Accelerates Coastal Erosion: 6 Billion Tonnes Dredged from the Ocean Every Year
Marine Environmental Issues

How Sand Mining Accelerates Coastal Erosion: 6 Billion Tonnes Dredged from the Ocean Every Year

2026-08-11

Why Do Jellyfish Blooms Happen? Nomura's Jellyfish Damage and the Links to Overfishing, Warming and Eutrophication
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Do Jellyfish Blooms Happen? Nomura's Jellyfish Damage and the Links to Overfishing, Warming and Eutrophication

2026-08-11

Why Do Urchin Barrens Happen? The Loss of Kelp Forests and the Global Fight to Restore Them
Marine Environmental Issues

Why Do Urchin Barrens Happen? The Loss of Kelp Forests and the Global Fight to Restore Them

2026-08-11

What Is a Golden Tide? Why Massive Sargassum Blooms Bury Coastlines and How the Seaweed Could Become a Resource
Marine Environmental Issues

What Is a Golden Tide? Why Massive Sargassum Blooms Bury Coastlines and How the Seaweed Could Become a Resource

2026-08-10

What Is Shark Finning? The Practice Decimating Sharks and the Global Rules to Stop It
Marine Environmental Issues

What Is Shark Finning? The Practice Decimating Sharks and the Global Rules to Stop It

2026-08-10

Plastic Ingestion by Seabirds: Why 90% Eat Plastic and the Stomach Disease Plasticosis
Marine Environmental Issues

Plastic Ingestion by Seabirds: Why 90% Eat Plastic and the Stomach Disease Plasticosis

2026-08-10

How Ships' Ballast Water Spreads Invasive Species: Disrupted Marine Ecosystems and Mandatory Treatment Systems Explained
Marine Environmental Issues

How Ships' Ballast Water Spreads Invasive Species: Disrupted Marine Ecosystems and Mandatory Treatment Systems Explained

2026-08-09