Galveston, Texas, visitors may be shocked to see a murkier shade of Gulf of Mexico water, but that's only due to science and ...

Atlantic Coast beaches have a charm all their own, but they don’t often get the same level of gushing admiration that their ...

depending on the chemical makeup of the water. The abundance of iron and the flourishing of microbial life provide evidence for a green ocean. Blue-green algae, also called cyanobacteria ...

Last week, one particular blue hole off Florida ... 20-storey building anchored in the ocean floor — connects to other sinkholes and whether fresh water flows within. The scientists leading ...

and future changes could shift ocean colors again. Earth is known as the “blue planet,” but a new study published in Nature suggests that our oceans may have once looked green instead of blue.

Instead of reflecting blue light, they may have been glowing green ... the ocean floor. This process continued for billions of years, eventually removing most of the iron content from the water ...

Their simulation showed the iron was triple-charged, which meant it would have given the ocean water a green hue because iron hydroxide absorbs blue light and water absorbs red light—leaving ...

The Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) cautions the public of the presence of harmful blue-green ...

Blue-green algae ... producing "rust-like particles" in the ocean that "changed the wavelengths of light that could penetrate the water," said the release. "As the particles preferentially ...