Kris Holderied, who directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, says the ocean's increasing acidity is 'the reason fishermen stop me in the grocery store.' 'They say, ...

A research paper published this week reveals that large die-offs of algae locally magnify ocean acidification. As the cells die and sinks to the bottom, the bacteria population that feeds ...

A new kind of witchy interaction is underway in the oceans, report the authors of a new paper in Environmental Science & Technology. William G. Sunda and Wei-Jun Cai created ...

As scientists continue to research ways in which the oceans are changing - and what these changes mean for fish populations, three new research projects will receive funding to examine ...

An increasingly warm climate is worsening the problem of harmful Great Lakes algae blooms by boosting the intensity of spring rains that wash phosphorus into the waters, a scientist said ...

Does seagrass hold the secret to saving the world's coral reefs from extinction? A team of scientists from the U.K. and Australia seem to think so, testing the theory that ...

University and NOAA investigators have found seed-like cysts of the toxic algaAlexandrium at all depths in a sediment core taken from Sequim Bay in Puget Sound. The depths in which ...

Atlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) prefer to deposit their eggs on native salt marsh habitat but not invasive salt marsh species, beaches, or shorelines hardened by bulkheads or rip-rap, according to ...

Skin lesions on coastal dolphins are associated with water that's colder and has lower salinity, say researchers at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. They analyzed photographs collected during ...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) Kasitsna Bay Laboratory helped organize and participated in the 2012 Kachemak Bay Marine Science Conference, held on March 8-10, 2012 in Homer, ...