Late summer is the peak time for harmful algae that can turn lakes into toxic scum, canceling fishing trips and fouling water supplies. While the Pacific Northwest doesn’t get anything near the activity that turned parts of Lake Erie into bright green slime, our coasts are vulnerable in late summer to this largely unpredictable – and in our case unseen – menace.

New questions about geology, oceanography and seafloor ecosystems are being raised because of research by a Mississippi State University geologist.

New results show three times as much in upper oceans since Industrial Revolution times.

The U.S. Department of Energy selected a University of Alabama start-up company for an approximate $1.5 million award to refine an alternative material to potentially extract uranium from the ocean.

Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes

Drilling in Japan Trench by international scientific team finds unusually thin, slippery geological fault.