The abyssal plain is frequently described as a desert, and the comparison is a good one for a specific reason.
Deserts are not lifeless. They are places where the limiting…
There is a category error built into the way most people look at a shallow sea.
Everything green underwater gets filed as seaweed, and seaweed is algae — a fundamentally…
Tides are usually explained by the moon, and that explanation is correct and incomplete.
The moon's pull produces a tidal range in the open ocean of roughly a metre. That…
Sound behaves very differently in water than in air, and most of the differences are counterintuitive.
It travels roughly four to five times faster. It carries very much further. And,…
Children ask why the sea is salty, and the standard answer — rivers carry salt into it and evaporation leaves the salt behind — is correct as far as it…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most misunderstood environmental subject there is, and the misunderstanding is remarkably specific. People do not merely have a vague sense of it;…