By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

This January, ocean lovers and community scientists from across the islands and beyond are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sanctuary Ocean Count —Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Learn how the harbor seal became Rhode Island’s state animal and what this whiskered swimmer says about the Ocean State.

A nine-year study from south Florida suggests juvenile Atlantic manta rays may be doing far more ecological work than we ever ...

Experts say a “perfect storm” of conditions was behind four separate shark attacks within 48 hours in NSW. Warm temperatures, ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, a strange predator drifts through the water like a living ghost train, its body stretching ...

The search continues for a 19-year-old man who was swept out to sea off Kahili Beach.