New advancements in satellite technology are transforming how we understand the role oceans play in regulating carbon dioxide ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the MTG-S1 weather satellite for EUMETSAT today (July 1), then came back down to Earth for ...

A new satellite-based product can now map the ocean carbon sink at unprecedented resolution.Although the oceanic sink for the ...

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of ...

On May 7, 2025, satellites spotted something huge. A dense plume of Saharan dust blew off the west coast of Africa. It stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, covering about 150,000 square kilometers (57 ...

My colleagues and I gathered 30 years of satellite tracking data to map hotspots of megafauna activity around the globe. We tracked 12,794 animals from 111 species to find out where they go. The ...

Antarctic iceberg A-23A stuck in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia island in the South Atlantic Ocean on March 4, 2025, as seen by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.

Sperm Whale. Image via Pixabay. Despite oceans covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, we have mapped less than 25% of the ocean floor at high resolution. Traditional ocean floor mapping methods face ...

Mesoscale eddies (those 50–100 kilometres across) are commonplace in the ocean, and transport most of the ocean’s kinetic energy in a horizontal direction. Smaller, submesoscale surface ...

Conducted by engineers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the research examined the potential of capturing kinetic energy from ocean currents using data collected as part of National Oceanic and ...