But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different future. The Trump administration has moved to reopen 500,000 square miles (about ...

Geologists have uncovered the fossil of a mosasaur, an ancient aquatic predator, in Mississippi. Often referred to as a “sea ...

Arbitrators asked to settle a dispute between Britain and the European Union over post-Brexit fishing rights have given a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...

Marine habitats are facing unprecedented threats, with 66% of coastal areas already altered and degraded. Bottom-contact ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the ...

The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet ...

Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it ...

The world is betting heavily on carbon capture — a term that refers to various techniques to stop carbon pollution from being ...

According to a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings of the ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.