Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These ...

This story was originally published by Yale 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California ...

A wave channel experiment used a zoom lens camera and a custom Python script to process imagery of four different zones: wave generation, shoaling and breaking, air detained by a plunging jet of water ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Working to stop harmful marine pollution at the source. © Troy Mayne / WWF The health, resilience and productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

Deep-sea mining could pose a threat to whales, dolphins, and other sea life, according to new research. In light of increased interest in deep-sea mining, two new scientific surveys have raised ...

A new chapter has unfolded in the fight against ocean pollution as Hong Kong‘s Clearbot takes a significant leap forward. The marine tech start-up is rolling out a fleet of advanced solar-powered ...