Pacific Island communities are calling on everyone, from individuals to nations, to respect the Law of the Sea. They say it’s ...

Greenpeace is calling the stance taken by New Zealand at an international fisheries forum "short-sighted and reckless", ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment ...

A rare, deep-sea fish washed ashore in Carlsbad last week and has since been turned over to biologists at the Scripps ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing. Sea ice loss has far-reaching effects on the planet because the ice helps ...

Fire debris and potentially toxic ash could make the water unsafe for surfers and swimmers, especially after rainfall that ...

Meta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world. The tech giant said Project ...