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

The organization has yet to agree to a proposal that was submitted in 2000 to add the Southern Ocean to the world map, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. However ...

A US-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers has rocketed into orbit. The pre-dawn launch on Friday on board a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force ...

The world’s oceans have set a new temperature record with the potential to threaten Earth’s climate, marine life and coastal communities. The temperature of the oceans’ surface hit 20.96 ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are currently unmapped, but a $7 million prize pool to explore the deep sea hopes to change that. The Ocean Discovery XPrize was today awarded to ...

An ‘X-ray map’ of the world’s ocean has revealed startling new insight on the global impacts of human activity. The map shows the many ‘hot spots’ of human influence, where fishing ...