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The top of the world saw record-beating average temperatures flashing through all three summer months.

Microplastics from the breakdown of plastics and from microbeads used in toothpaste and exfoliants, are so small, they are able to travel in the atmosphere.

After a decade or so of only about 20 reported cases annually, 2018 saw 43 cases detected on cattle and pig farms.

Earth’s natural cycles can’t account for the recent warming seen over the past 100 years, new research suggests.

Cities around Canada are urging swimmers to take caution as toxic blue-green algae warnings are in effect throughout the nation. This algae, if in contact with humans and pets, can be extremely harmful.

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The glowing algae is suffocating sea life.

Sargassum is infesting Mexico’s coastline. Researchers are scrambling to stop an ecological crisis, and maybe even make something good of it.

The Ranavirus virus has been found in a turtle in Hamilton's Cootes Paradise wetland. It generally leads to organ failure and death within four weeks.

Researchers have determined that, when ground ice is thicker, reindeer make for the coast. They don't eat kelp when they don't have to.

Warming ocean waters are an invitation to all sorts of pathogens with the potential to remake ocean life.

Rabies reported in three towns in eastern Essex County

March becomes the hundredth month in a row with temperatures above normal. "It is unique and shows how fast climate change is happening in the Arctic," says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen at the Meteorological Institute (MET).

The 2015 to 2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world.

Greenhouse gas emissions provide extreme warming on Svalbard.

Basic ocean food critical for the whole ecosystem is in dramatic decline and scientists don't know exactly why.

December 3, 2018 – A new study by MBARI scientists shows that pulses of sinking debris carry large amounts of carbon to the deep seafloor, but are poorly represented in global climate models.

Western Lake Erie's annual summer algal blooms are triggered, at least in part, by cyanobacteria cells that survive the winter in lake-bottom sediments, then emerge in the spring to "seed" the next year's bloom, according to a research team led by University of Michigan scientists.

Bacteria living more than 4,000 meters (2 miles) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean are absorbing an estimated 10 percent of the carbon dioxide that oc

Reports that the sea star population was rebounding appear to have been overly optimistic, says the Coastal Ocean Research Institute.