Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

Beachwood Beach, located along the Toms River, was closed to swimming late last summer over health concerns due to high ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

Most climate models now show that cutting emissions won’t be enough to curb global warming. The world needs to actively ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.