There is an alarming disconnect between how young people recognize the ocean’s role in tackling climate change and the priority they think measures to help it should be given, according to a new ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest we could dive was about 500 ft. Humans were beginning to imagine what could be ...

Humanity is rapidly altering a vast ecosystem that sustains life on land and sea. But restoration is nearly impossible without understanding it better. Edith Widder is CEO and senior scientist at the ...

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...

The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, and coral death. The heat ...

There is growing interest in the scientific community and private sector in biological approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal—strategies designed to enhance the ocean's natural ability to absorb ...

OCEAN CITY, MD/FENWICK ISLAND, DE/REHOBOTH BEACH, DE - Ocean City, Fenwick Island, and Rehoboth Beach officials are prohibiting ocean swimming after discovering medical waste washed up on coastal ...