As global warming accelerates, causing rapid melting of sea ice in the polar regions, a new analysis suggests that ocean ...

Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg calving secretly fuel glacier melt in Greenland. Iceberg calving takes place when large sections of ice detach from the ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago and ...

Did you know rivers carry about 40 trillion metric tons of river water into the ocean every year? This meeting point, known as the estuary, holds great potential for electricity generation. Mixing the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In estuaries, where rivers flow into the sea, enormous free-energy dissipation takes place when fresh river water mixes with salty sea water. The release of Gibbs free energy from ...

A new, simple, and efficient flow-based method allows researchers to pull a useful magnesium salt from natural seawater using easily available chemicals. Since ancient times, humans have extracted ...

On a humid morning in Fukuoka, a coastal city in southern Japan, a new kind of power came online. Japan has launched Asia’s first osmotic power plant, which generates electricity by mixing fresh water ...

New research uncovers freshwater reserves beneath Greece’s seafloor, revealing a hidden resource formed during ancient ...

Since ancient times, humans have extracted salts, like table salt, from the ocean. While table salt is the easiest to obtain, seawater is a rich source of different minerals, and researchers are ...