In a world affected by climate change, the Southern Ocean plays an outsized role. It absorbs up to 40% of the human-caused ...

Marine life may be more resilient to climate stress than previously thought, thanks to shifting oxygen levels in coastal ...

The process of desalination produces highly concentrated brine as a waste product, which can create ocean ‘dead zones’. Most ...

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest ...

Indonesia’s marine ministry has approved one of Java’s largest coal plants to use vast amounts of seawater for cooling, ...

Following new research, scientists now warn that these prolonged temperature spikes might herald a tipping point for the ...

The Aquatic Atlas study also suggests that the economic benefits of scuba diving could help drive marine conservation.

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

The new Singapore Oceanarium opens at Resorts World Sentosa, featuring immersive marine exhibits, education zones, ...

While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars ( Pycnopodia helianthoides) mean business–especailly when faced with spiny ...

This is the kind of fieldwork marine biologists dream of. Hands-on lobster hauling meets pollock and mackerel fishing, all while uncovering the subtle indicators of population health, migration timing ...

Though hostile in appearance, the deep sea teems with life. Far from being barren, the abyss is likely home to millions of ...