Microplastics are scourge of the world’s oceans, but finding where they accumulate could help direct conservation efforts.

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from ...

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will ...

The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness – it's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide.

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts ...

Along the Atlantic seaboard, more than 135 million Americans live in a zone where the ocean is no longer rising steadily but ...

Australia pioneered assisted coral fertilization. It’s expanding in the Caribbean, with leading projects at the National ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

Like corn kernels in slowly heating oil, the orca sightings began sparse and unpredictable. But at some imperceptible moment, ...