PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An “extreme” marine heatwave present in the Northeast Pacific is creeping toward the Oregon and Washington coasts, impacting marine life and causing the algae that produce the ...

Without the ocean, climate change on land would be even more catastrophic. The seas have absorbed over 90 percent of the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions, essentially saving humanity from ...

Scientists at a university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have uncovered the key climate factors responsible for extreme ...

A distant container ship traveling in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, California. Credit: FREDERIC J BROWN/AFP/Getty Images Things got really strange in the waters off of Southern ...

Common starfish cannot survive amplified marine heatwaves projected at the end of the century and experience lasting negative effects from current heatwaves, according to new research. Common starfish ...

Ocean water temperatures around the U.K. and Ireland are over 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) above long-term averages for this part of the year, sparking concerns of marine life die-off ...

The world’s oceans passed a threshold eight years ago as marine heatwaves became the “new normal” due to climate change, with research showing extreme temperatures recorded across more than half of ...

Oceans around the world are hotter than ever before in the record-keeping era – and those high temps have now reached the Pacific Northwest. Colin McCarthy, an atmospheric scientist and extreme ...

Human-caused climate change has also caused extreme ocean temperatures and conditions with detrimental impacts on marine ecosystems and ocean-related ecology. A new study explores ocean temperature ...

Oceans are heating up at breakneck speed, and the warming waters are threatening marine animals all over the world. That’s the alarming takeaway from a pair of new studies on marine warming published ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) --In 2015, a marine heatwave dubbed "The Blob" expanded across the Northern Pacific. At its peak, the mass of warm water extended more than 2,000 miles in length, measured 1,000 miles ...