Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic ...

The lines of artificial coastal developments might be neat and straight but in reality, they are fragmenting ecosystems and ...

The RE-MAP project is part of the broader Clean and Healthy Ocean Integrated Program, which supports global efforts to reduce ...

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and 100 times larger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is by far the world's largest ocean current. But this key system is ...

China could use oceanographic research to support its military by gathering critical data about the world's oceans.

An autonomous ocean robot, launched from Woods Hole, is attempting to complete a first-ever trip around the world.

Glaciers around the globe are melting at an alarming rate, and it’s not just causing sea levels to rise—it’s actually ...

Melissa strengthened into a major hurricane and is expected to bring "catastrophic" flash flooding and landslides to Jamaica, ...

In the urban waters off Naples, shoals of bream, wrasses, as well as crustaceans, mollusks and bryozoans are returning after ...

Many marine species are no strangers to the depths of the oceans. Some animals, like certain sharks, tuna, or turtles, routinely perform extreme dives, whereas for other species, such behavior has ...

Bivalves, such as clams, oysters and mussels, record seasonal environmental changes in their shells, making them living chronicles of climate history. A new study of bivalve shells has detected two ...