An irreversible shift in the chemical makeup of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region's food ...

Earth's oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet's surface. That is a lot of room for species to exist, often without ever being detected by humans. Those species have had nearly 3.7 billion ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to save them as risks to the world’s oceans multiply ...

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...

In 1997, one of the strongest El Ninos ever recorded could not break India's monsoon because the Indian Ocean pushed back.

Scientists are increasingly concerned that marine heatwaves in the Pacific Ocean will fuel a “super” or “Godzilla” El Niño, disrupting fisheries and ecosystems, and intensifying global climate impacts ...

The ocean works quietly every day to protect life on Earth. It absorbs heat from the atmosphere, stores massive amounts of carbon dioxide and produces much of the oxygen humans breathe.

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...

When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest we could dive was about 500 ft. Humans were beginning to imagine what could be ...

Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth's strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers ...