A 2003 marine heat wave in the waters around Greenland continues to impact North Atlantic ocean ecosystems decades on, with a ...

Iceberg A23a could die any time now, as the latest photos from NASA show it covered with a blue mush that forms from ...

The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty came into force on Saturday, almost three years after its signing in March 2023 – and ...

Explore the farthest point on Earth from land, uncovering its location, scientific importance, extreme isolation, and ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...

Discover Point Nemo, Earth's most isolated location, where the nearest humans are often astronauts in space, not on land.

Rutgers University marine scientists are using New Jersey-developed tools to measure how iron shortages in Southern Ocean ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

This past week’s strandline delivered a spectacular mix of open-ocean drifters, Man o’ Wars, blue buttons, by-the-wind sailors, and — tucked among them — one of my favorite finds: the purple storm ...

Canada has a history of ocean leadership, from helping draft the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to negotiating the Fish ...

This past week’s strandline delivered a spectacular mix of open-ocean drifters, Man o’ Wars, blue buttons, by-the-wind sailors. Tucked among them was one of my favorite finds — the purple storm snail, ...

Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...