New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow more acidic.

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

When marine organisms die and sink, billions of tons of organic and inorganic carbon are carried downward each year. The ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...

IN BARANGAY Sabang on Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City, mornings begin not with traffic or office buzz, but with the soft ...

Several times over the past months we’ve noted the anticipated effects of ocean acidification. As the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content increases, some of it mixes with ocean water, forming carbonic ...