Digital technology such as extended reality helps to make the mysteries and importance of the ocean more accessible to ...

In the darkness nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where the pressure would crush a human and temperatures hover just ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, they become more corrosive. That's happening faster here.

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

Melting Antarctic ice reveals rocky peaks that release iron, which drifts into the ocean and helps tiny plants absorb carbon ...

Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...

Earth's ocean, the planet's life-support system, is experiencing rapid and widespread transformations that extend far below its surface. A promising international study published in Nature Climate ...

At the 50% mortality threshold, the volumes are even more startling: consuming less than one sugar cube’s worth of plastics ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...