Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

New research paints the extent of human pollution across the planet's oceans: Pesticides and pharmaceuticals make up a large ...

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

An NHK diving crew recently visited Otsuchi Town in Iwate Prefecture, where the ocean floor still bears the scars of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

While the total number of U.S. service members on the ground in the Middle East is not clear, one of the largest military ...

I thought the world was ending’ as Boxing Day Tsunami washed Merseyside man away. December 26, 2024, marks 20 years since the Boxing Day Tsunami killed 227,898 people across ...

Jace Tunnell, of the Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi, holds a handful of blue dragons. Dozens of the sea slugs washed ashore on North Padre Island and Surfside Beach on March 10, 2026. The ...

Spring breakers on the Texas Gulf Coast are getting an unexpected guest star this week: electric-blue sea slugs nicknamed “blue dragons.” The ornate, inch-long nudibranchs have been washing up on ...

How is carbon metabolized and processed in different ecosystems? In a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers led by Joely Maak, the study’s first author ...