NASA has expanded the search for extraterrestrial life by identifying 17 exoplanets with the potential for habitable oceans hidden beneath their icy shells. "Water from these oceans could occasionally erupt through the ice crust as geysers.

NASA identifies 17 exoplanets hosting 'hidden' oceans beneath icy shells, erupting geysers

A research team from The Netherlands has developed a new Artificial Intelligence model that can recognise floating plastics with much more accuracy than conventional satellite images.

Artificial Intelligence could aid humanity's effort to free oceans from plastic, research shows

Day after day, country after country, the world is experiencing record-breaking rainfall while temperatures are rising. Extreme weather has now become the new normal. To know more watch this interview with the Senior Strategist for the Center for Climate & Security Sherri Goodman.

Oceans have been absorbing the world's extra heat

Climate change has likely changed the colour of the Earth's oceans significantly over the past two decades, according to a study. The research, published recently in the journal Nature, detected changes in ocean colour over the past 20 years that cannot be explained by natural, year-to-year variability alone. Watch this to know more.

Climate change is shifting the oceans' colours: Study

A study published on Tuesday (July 11) found that deep-sea mining could interfere with the expected change of migration patterns of tuna driven by climate change, to areas of the Pacific where mining activities are set to take place.

Seafood industry opposes deep-sea mining plans as study shows potential impact on tuna fisheries

Melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world’s climate for centuries and accelerate sea level rise, according to scientists behind the new research. The research suggests if greenhouse gas emissions continue at today’s levels, the current in the deepest parts of the ocean could slow down by 40% in only three decades.

Antarctica ocean currents heading for collapse

Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a "mud missile" -- all tools used by scientists to scour the world's oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic.

Drugs from the deep: Scientists explore ocean frontiers

Representatives from 193 member nations of the United Nations convened on Monday (February 20) in the United States city of New York and for the next two weeks will negotiate its long-awaited treaty to protect the world’s oceans.

Explained | UN ocean treaty talks resume: Why the deal to protect the world’s oceans is so important

Billions of tiny plastic pellets also known as 'Nurdles' are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous. Nurdles pose significant dangers for marine life.

WION Climate Tracker: Nurdles or the tiny plastic pellets choking oceans

Secrets and unknown species abound in the waters of Earth's oceans. Among these mysterious species is one worm detected by scientists in 2020. Its iridescent colours reminded the discoverers so much of the king of rock'n'roll that they nicknamed it the "Elvis worm".

Mysteries of the ocean: Iridescent 'Elvis' worms that shimmer found thousands of feet underwater

Ahead of UN Ocean conference, mermaids call for ocean protection in Portugal climate protest

A tiny robot-fish has been designed by scientists to remove microplastics from oceans. This 13-mm-long fish will swim around and adsorb the microplastics through its body.

13-mm-long robot-fish designed by scientists to ‘eat’ microplastics in oceans

Meet the WasteShark, a boxy 5 foot, 2 inch long (157 centimeter) aquatic drone, hoovering up plastic waste in a pond in Rotterdam. Richard Hardiman, Founder and CEO of Ranmarine explains the mission.

River trash traps chew at huge ocean plastics problem

Earth is called a blue planet for a reason. Most of its surface is covered by oceans and what is left is made use of by us to live ad survive. Oceans and ocean currents have a major role in regulating global climate.

June 8, 2022, World Oceans Day: Saving the lungs of our planet

According to a recent study, oceans have now passed the point of no return in 2014. The report reads that the wild oceans crossed a threshold eight years ago, Climate change has made marine heatwaves become the new normal.

Study: Oceans 'passed point of no return' in 2014

We live on a planet 71 per cent of which is covered in water. It is the water that gives Earth its unique blue colour from space; but the origin of this liquid water, which sustains our seas and has nourished life for millennia, still remains a subject of intense debate.

Wait, what!? Scientists say water in our oceans has alien origins

June 8 is celebrated as World Oceans Day every year to highlight the importance of oceans in our ecosystems and the role played by expansive water bodies in keeping life afloat on planet Earth.

World Oceans Day 2021: Health of oceans matters to you. Here is why

Global warming and pollution caused by humanity's carbon-heavy footprint are ravaging Earth's oceans and icy regions in ways that could unleash misery on a global scale, a landmark UN report to be unveiled next week will warn.

Climate change could turn oceans from friend to foe, UN report warns

British supermarkets are starting to go "nude". Bowing to pressure from environmentally conscious consumers, big brand shops have begun taking steps to strip their shelves of plastic wrapping over concerns about saving the oceans from waste.

Going 'nude': UK supermarkets test plastic-free zones

This International Plastic Bag Free Day, a look at how waste plastic is turned into colourful tiles. #PlasticFreeDay #PlasticTiles #BeatPlasticPollution

Novel solution to fighting plastic pollution

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Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.

Oceans of garbage prompt war on plastics

The world's oceans have absorbed 60 per cent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change.

Oceans heating faster than previously thought: Study

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