When we think of the ocean, what often comes to mind are familiar sights– coral reefs, fishing boats, and waves breaking ...

It’s an organic gem like a pearl. But instead of residing in a shell, this Hawaii gem grows slowly like a miniature tree deep ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii and the Caribbean, are often fringed by coral reefs – ring-shaped structures that ...

The new film “Ocean With David Attenborough” is both a breathtaking celebration of marine life and a sobering exposé of the industrial forces pushing the ocean toward collapse.

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...

Often taken for granted, the ocean is our planet’s life support system. It produces over half of the oxygen we breathe, ...

The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global ...

The Chatham Rise, east of Christchurch, where a trawler bought up 6,000kg of protected stony coral at the end of 2024, was ...