The images are shocking, but perhaps not for people who live in the Dominican Republic.'It happens pretty much all the time,' says Cyrill Gutsch

A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but this year’s ice coverage is at an all-time low, throwing pups’ survival into jeopardy.

Researchers anticipate harmful nitrogen outputs to increase as a result of precipitation changes.

Several factors have conspired to make Hurricane Harvey so destructive in Texas, and warming temperatures are likely part of the problem.

Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.

Tropical, tube-shaped animals called pyrosomes, known as "fire bodies,"; appear by the millions off the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. No one knows why.

Rising temperatures have boosted the growth rates of seasonal moss on the southern continent over the last 50 years.

Ice in the north Bering Sea is diminishing, researchers aboard a Coast Guard ship report.

The storm presents an amazing contrast from a possible world-record high-pressure zone over Mongolia.

In dives to the seafloor, scientists have noticed big differences in only a few years.

A buoy in Manatee Bay, about 40 miles south of Miami, posted a temperature of 101.1 degrees at 6 p.m. after a morning low of 91 degrees. Temperatures remained at or above 100 from 5 p.m. through late evening. For comparison, the “ideal” temperature of a hot tub is 100 to 102 degrees, according to jacuzzi.com.

Over the past few months, a massive toxic bloom of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, stretching from central California to the Alaska Peninsula, has resulted in significant impacts to coastal resources and marine life. NOAA has been working closely with federal, state, tribal, academic, and other partners to respond to this unprecedented harmful algal bloom (HAB).

The 'blob' caused it this time around. But oceans will keep getting warmer in the future.

Arctic temperatures are warmer than ever recorded in February.

Scientists first caught on to the strange event when they found thousands of purple sea urchins and other organisms dead in their laboratory tanks.

Thai canals are clogged with discarded packaging, landfills are overflowing with mountains of bags, and trash bins are stuffed full of crumpled food wrapping.