Heat Absorption and Distribution Oceans play a colossal role in regulating Earth's climate by absorbing and distributing heat across the globe. Imagine the ocean as a giant sponge, soaking up ...

By 600 million years ago, Earth’s oceans had changed drastically. Without large amounts of iron hydroxide to absorb blue light, the oceans finally took on the deep blue color we see today ...

A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green.

Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein (includes AI-generated elements). Scientists from Yale University and Singapore have developed a new model to estimate when Earth’s oceans became less acidic ...

Due to evolutionary pressures and the light spectrum available to photosynthesizing cyanobacteria on early Earth, the world’s oceans were likely much greener than they are today. Although the ...

An illustration of the water cycle. Image by artisticco via Depositphotos. This underground reservoir could be an essential part of Earth’s water cycle. For example, it might help regulate the amount ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, our planet might have looked green from a distance, instead of the pale blue dot we know today. Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators ...

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Greenland sharks, with lifespans of up to 400 years, are the longest-living animals on Earth. They inhabit the cold depths of ...