Ocean science news, explainers, and statistics covering marine environments, currents, climate, coasts, seafloor research, and the changing global ocean.
The ocean provides living resources such as fish, shellfish and seaweed; dissolved materials including salt, magnesium and bromine; sand and gravel; offshore oil and natural gas; potential seabed minerals; and renewable energy from wind, waves, tides and currents. Ocean ecosystems also provide services such as carbon storage and coastal protection, although those benefits are not…
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Thirty seconds was enough for researchers to measure a small shift in what people said they might do next about climate and ocean change, but only when the message focused on a very specific human belief: whether a person feels able to encourage someone else to act. In a field study of 2,414 coastal visitors…
One of the study’s central puzzles was simple enough for any traveler to recognize. People can come home from a striking day in nature feeling amazed, calmer and more connected to the living world, yet those feelings do not all point toward the same kind of next step. A survey-based study of 228 tourists visiting…
A clean shore can feel like a reset button, yet this study found that the feeling is fragile. When researchers added small amounts of debris to beach photographs, viewers rated the scenes as less pleasant, less calming and less likely to help them recover from stress. The harshest reactions came when the trash looked as…
