As the climate crisis continues, sooner or later the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet will collapse. An unassuming octopus just gave scientists an important clue about how quickly that might happen...
A giant iceberg called A23a, which broke off from Antarctica in 1986, is finally moving away from the icy continent after being stuck on the seafloor for decades
PFAS can enter the food chain through marine plants and animals and hurt human health
Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glacial and ice-sheet-melting physics
We can’t put a price on a healthy biosphere. We must instead reorient our economy into one that values the living world
A deep-sea expedition discovers a strange, dark world of strawberry squid and ratfish in cold-water corals near the Galápagos Islands
A facility off the coast of Oregon is being constructed to test devices to harness wave power that resemble everything from buoys to carpets
A hydrogeologist explains the shifting balance between fresh and salt water at the coast as sea levels rise
Eight pages hidden in an archive led to the discovery of the story of Christine Essenberg
Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot off California
As waters off Florida hit abnormally hot temperatures, volunteer divers are rescuing corals to ride out the heat wave in giant tanks on land
Mining the seafloor could boost global production of clean energy technology—and destroy the ocean in the process
The number of extreme wave events—when crests are taller than 13 feet—have doubled along California since the mid-20th century
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale
Explorers of space and the deep sea face similar dangers, but some differences make one realm safer than the other
An alarming study predicts an imminent collapse of a mega ocean current, but some experts say the evidence is insufficient
Rip currents pose a danger to swimmers at the beach, but they also play an important ecological role in the ocean
Even small deep-sea mining operations can have a significant effect on marine life, a new study has found, just as such mining operations are poised to begin with no industry rules in place...
With unprecedented marine heat waves sweeping the globe, we need better solutions for ocean sustainability
The world’s oceans are becoming greener with climate change, possibly because of changing amounts of plankton or other organic material in the water
