Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change ... Where phytoplankton are absent, the water appears blue. Juan Fernandez fur seals are seen in Antarctica, Feb. 28, 2025.

Blue, green, blue-green, brown, grey? Many of you probably answered blue but the ocean is not one consistent color because the ocean content varies by location. Our atmosphere scatters light into ...

Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.S ...

The ocean absorbs a lot of sunlight and sunlight is composed of many different wavelengths that represent many colors. The longer wavelengths – red, yellow and green – are absorbed by water ...

And on the other side, the areas where the water is already quite blue because of a smaller phytoplankton population will get bluer, because there will be less phytoplankton, as Phys.Org explained.

Though I can look over the ocean, I can’t really look into it, much as I would love to. It just looks blue and impenetrable. Yet we know that water is transparent and colorless.

The ocean is changing colors, researchers say. Here's what it means. Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images - PHOTO: Juan Fernandez fur seals are seen in Antarctica, Feb. 28, 2025.

The researchers analyzed satellite data on the open ocean collected from 2003 to 2022 by a NASA instrument that combs through the planet every two days to measure light wavelength, according to ...