The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

South African authorities say big ocean waves caused by a phenomenon known as “spring tide” crashed into coastal parts of the country over the weekend, leaving two people dead and injuring several

The French environmental health agency has confirmed the negative impact of certain chemicals on coral, including several substances present in sunscreens. With territories in three tropical oceans, France harbours ten percent of the world’s coral, which is already under threat from climate change.

The Northern Hemisphere summer brought catastrophic fires and floods to many countries. Down south, the winter was the hottest ever recorded in Australia, fuelled by record ocean temperatures.

Legal personhood has been signed into law for the Whanganui River and the Urewera. Now Māori and Pacific leaders are proposing the same for whales.

Worlds Beneath the Waves at the National Museum of the Royal Navy marks 150 years since ship’s remarkable circumnavigation

Climate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm

From the Sargasso Sea to the Costa Rica thermal dome, scientists are identifying key diversity hotspots to safeguard under a new UN treaty

Ocean Explorer has finally been freed after running aground in Greenland

The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was successfully pulled free at high tide after running aground above the Arctic Circle with 206 people on board.

This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish

Michael Johnson, from Zimbabwe, was washed overboard in the middle of the Atlantic in 2016.