June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know these marine megafauna—such as whales, ...

She is also part of a global race to map the entirety of the world's ocean by 2030, which experts say is essential not just for pure scientific knowledge, but human safety and technological ...

And it’s got major global economic implications. How exactly does one map the bottom of the ocean? Humans have been sailing the seas for millennia without a great sense of what was below them.

A massive global collaboration has tracked over 12,000 marine animals from whales to turtles to create one of the most ...

And there will be ripple effects: Marine heat waves are affecting about 44 percent of the global ocean, whereas only 10 percent is typical, and they can have “significant impacts on marine life ...

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, who have spent more than a ...

Where are all the marine animals going? Given the vastness of the oceans, the countless species that live in them, and the ...

Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every year ... between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution patterns by ...

Researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map ... is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every ...