More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

The sun had barely risen on a calm Wednesday morning in Taiwan when alarms began to sound quietly within the maritime ...

On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different ...

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to climate scientists.

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are ...

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

Possible explanations for the turtles’ olympic feat — a voyage traversing the near-freezing, virtually impenetrable deep ocean-zone to the foraging grounds of Baja California — have eluded ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A boy vanished while swimming in the ocean on Friday in Fort Lauderdale Beach and a dive team found him dead after he drowned, police said. The 13-year-old boy ...

These are exclusive economic zones, particular to each coastal nation ... extract these types of minerals and metals from the deep ocean. And that would throw this entire industry into an entirely ...