Though once thought to be siphonophores — colonies of specialized zooids — the velella velella is now classified as a single ...

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Mild winter weather creates ideal conditions for these jelly-like creatures that travel by wind and wash ashore in spring.

The far-reaching glow of bioluminescence has haunted sailors for centuries across the Indian Ocean. Now scientists believe ...

Australia is also supporting the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership to build ocean accounting capability internationally and deliver environmental economic accounting for projects under the Blue Carbon ...

Explore the phenomenon of glowing ocean events known as milky seas, created by bioluminescent bacteria visible from space.

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the secrets of this ghostly phenomenon.

The bottom of the Great Blue Hole Tropical cyclones are intense, rotating, low-pressure systems that form over warm ocean waters. They transfer heat from the ocean into the upper atmosphere ...

MIAMI – As part of a multi-agency security effort, police officers were enforcing a traffic pattern change as a long ... being allowed on the beach near Ocean Drive. The line to get into the ...

Its surface temperatures affect El Niño and La Niña weather patterns, which influence rainfall as far away as California. To understand the physical mechanism for Southern Ocean cooling—and ...

By analysing ocean sediments from the Bay of Bengal and ... demonstrates that monsoon patterns have fluctuated significantly over millennia. These variations have had a profound impact on both ...