The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...

An image of the northern Gulf of Mexico created from remote-sensing reflectance and chlorophyll measurements taken from newly reprocessed VIIRS data. In a study published July 12 in the journal Nature ...

To track the changes in ocean color, scientists analyzed measurements of ocean color taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite, which has been ...

The Ocean is vital for life on Earth as it produces over the half world’s oxygen and it also regulates the climate by absorbing the heat and Carbon dioxide and also it helps in analysing weather ...

A new study analyzing 20 years of data has found that our oceans have changed color, indicating a significant shift in marine ecosystems that is likely due to human-caused climate change. For decades, ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Human-driven climate change is altering the world’s oceans, including their very ...