A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations began. The findings, published today (January 9) in Advances in ...

As global competition and climate change reshape the world's oceans, they become focal points of 21st-century geopolitics.

The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Future of Oceans program brings scientists and researchers to Port Townsend to ...

But now, thanks to a rare piece of environmental good news, the high seas are finally getting some protection. On January 17, ...

We are all affected by ocean conditions, and we're talking about huge things like global food security and human health, to fisheries we depend on, to the transport of a whopping 90% of the world's ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests that microscopic plastic pollution is reducing the ocean’s capacity to ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

Sharks' teeth—some of nature's sharpest and most formidable weapons—may not withstand the effects of future ocean acidification, new research suggests. Scientists at the Heinrich Heine University ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build. Research mapping the thickness of the world's icy crust not only provides a window for how old an existing ocean might be but ...