The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical elements in seawater and ocean sediments are used as tracers of physical, biological, chemical and geological ...

The idea is deceptively simple: by diluting extremely basic chemicals in the waters, they're looking to increase the ocean's ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

The accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in marine organisms, particularly fish, eventually makes its way onto our plates. What are the health risks?

They found chemicals from plastic ended up in the birds ... plastic score' of the food on our plates Microplastics threat to ocean giants Given current trends, it is estimated that 99% of seabirds ...

PFAS refers collectively to the thousands of man-made chemicals that take a very long time to break down in nature. None of ...

What is the 'other carbon dioxide problem'? How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

For Emily Penn, it is the potentially toxic impact of the breakdown of plastics in the ocean by seawater and sunlight that is of great concern. These tiny fragments contain chemicals which are ...

This panel brings together leading NOAA scientists and community leaders to discuss research and monitoring of chemicals of concern that enter our coastal waters through run-off, discharge, and other ...