The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and ...

New research shows that maintaining and adopting proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean could almost ...

Economics professor Ceyda Erden Ozsoy says excluding marine damage adds $48 to carbon cost, calling current models incomplete - Anadolu Ajansı ...

There are numerous ways scientists measure the impacts of climate change. Sometimes it’s by what they see, or maybe even by what they smell. In a recent case, it’s by what they hear. Whale calls. That ...

Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, ...

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

The oceans are losing their light – and with it, possibly their life. A new study reveals more than 20% of the Earth's oceans, an area larger than Asia, has darkened over the last two decades. These ...

There’s always some controversy over ocean plastic — such as who is responsible for it and what to do about it — but everyone agrees that plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean. Or do they? I was floored ...

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California. Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that coastal marine ecosystems have legal rights that must be protected, potentially requiring stricter limits on human activities like industrial fishing.

It's weird, all right. We found out what's going on. You go on a beach trip or look out the airplane window, and you do a double take. You could swear the ocean is looking a bit teal. Are you ...