The enclosures stretch the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool, but from above they appear as floating dots scattered across the ocean. Inside, fish mill about as the submerged pens sway to the…
Noise pollution from proposed deep-sea mining could radiate through the ocean for hundreds of kilometres, scientists predict, creating a “cylinder of sound” from the surface to the sea bed.
On the second day of the UN Ocean Conference, the Conference continues to ignite fresh impetus for advancing sustainable ocean-based economies and calls for urgent actions on protecting marine and…
The news is full of dire warnings about the future and current health of the Great Barrier Reef, but the World Heritage Site is not dead yet.
Scientists on Tuesday night recorded videos of corals …
Exclusive: pork industry’s role in pollution of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons may be greater than publicly acknowledged, investigation reveals.
The most comprehensive study of the health of the world's coral reefs to date shows that warming temperatures driven by the human-caused climate crisis wiped out a staggering 14% of the diverse…
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand.
Ashort bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South…
Summer in the Gulf of Mexico is a time to celebrate the region's bounty, including its prized shrimp, which are the star of local festivals. But shrimpers this summer found themselves contending with…
Hundreds of spills off Gulf of Paria having ‘dire’ impact on local fishing in one of the most biodiverse areas of Trinidad and Tobago.
Hands masked in thick black oil, the fisher drips toxic…
Jambiani — Nasir Hassan Haji never thought of herself as a farmer or a swimmer, but as she waded into Zanzibar’s blue waters with goggles pulled over her headscarf to examine her floating sponge farm…
Last month conservationists working with SeaLife Aquarium in Australia dropped 18 biodegradable "hotels" into Sydney Harbor and Port Stephens to help one of the region's most endangered species: tiny…
Group of reef and climate scientists say world heritage warning merited and Australia has not ‘pulled its weight on emissions’.
Five of the world’s leading reef and climate scientists have thanked…
Majority of land at risk from a 1-metre sea level rise is in the tropics, research finds
Up to 410 million people will be living in areas less than 2 metres above sea level, and at risk from sea…
Jane Gilbert urges greater federal and state response to lethal threat posed by rising temperatures.
Miami’s new chief heat officer has called for greater federal and state action on the lethal…
Human activity is destroying the equivalent of a football pitch of seagrasses every 30 minutes around the world.
Hundreds of miles from the nearest shore, ribbon-like fronds flutter in the ocean …
The underwater continent broke off from Gondwana 80 million years ago.
A new ocean-mapping expedition is drawing the boundaries of Zealandia, a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and…
A new study from Australian and Chinese researchers adds weight to scientists' warnings from recent United Nations reports about how sea levels are expected to rise dangerously in the coming decades…
Scientists surprised by marine organisms on boulder on sea floor beneath 900 metres of ice shelf.
The accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 metres (3,…
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