The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a ...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

From white sturgeon to bald eagles, explore the remarkable species thriving along the Columbia River, the lifeblood of the ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and ...

Could protecting one shark species be quietly saving others in the same habitat? Recent observations suggest that efforts to ...

The most striking feature of the Pacific Barreleye is, without doubt, its transparent, fluid-filled head. Through this clear shield, you can actually see its bright green, tubular eyes pointing upward ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be much more stable—and robust—than previously thought. Analyzing nitrogen ...

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are ...