A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out […] ...

Photographer Ryo Minemizu captures vibrant images of tiny, rarely seen ocean creatures during challenging blackwater dives at ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

The new marine species from Papua New Guinea has a “distinctive” characteristic found in none of the other 134 related species.

Océan, Mississippi Watershed,” Floc’h, a French photographer, drove 13,000 miles tracking the river system that touches more ...

Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.Satellite data shows that ocean waters are getting ...

Almost all life in the ocean depends on the upper waters where sunlight filters in, known as the photic zone – but new research suggests this narrow window of valuable marine light is shrinking in ...

Time development of chlorophyll concentration (top) and particulate iron flux at 1,000 meters depth (bottom) based on observations from a site in the subantarctic region of the Southern Ocean ...