In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

You may know sargassum as the stinky algae that periodically washes ashore, but it's been an important breeding habitat for ...

Across tropical and subtropical seas, a quiet biological crisis is unfolding as vast populations of reef‑grazing sea urchins ...

Satellite data from Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich and Sentinel-6B tracks weak La Niña conditions in the equatorial Pacific, ...

A vast number of coastal cities in the U.S. would be submerged in water if sea levels rise 10 feet, according to a map by ...