It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

A new study suggests Earth's oceans may have been green during the Archean eon, around 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago. The ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

The far-reaching glow of bioluminescence has haunted sailors for centuries across the Indian Ocean. Now scientists believe ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among ...