Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a study.

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

Alligator Reef, marked by its historic lighthouse, provides a window into an aquatic wonderland where parrotfish nibble on coral, nurse sharks rest on sandy bottoms, and schools of silver baitfish ...

Technically Portugal's tallest mountain, the decision to protect Gorringe will take the nation's total protected territorial ...

Oceans are facing a multitude of climate-induced stresses including acidification, sea-level rise, warming waters, and ice ...

If you’re more interested in feathered friends than finned ones, the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center is a haven for avian appreciation. This sanctuary nurses injured birds back to health, ...

I had been fighting a tuna for three hours off the coast of Bermuda when a 16-foot tiger shark appeared out of nowhere.

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

A new study led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography may pave way for lab-based production of rare corals ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...