New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow more acidic.

Several times over the past months we’ve noted the anticipated effects of ocean acidification. As the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content increases, some of it mixes with ocean water, forming carbonic ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife, have seized a huge shipment of endangered sea turtle shells at Miami International Airport. The shipment was ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Climate change in the past can tell us much about what is happening today. New research shows how plankton shells dredged ...

Ask people who have strolled the Gulf Coast beaches of Florida and they'll tell you "shelling" is a serious pastime, with thousands of beachgoers sifting daily though miles of shells left behind by ...

If you hold up a seashell to your ear and listen, you may hear what sounds like rolling waves and wind. But it’s not actually the ocean. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, what exactly is it that ...