The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

The wondrous findings of a global project to record the sound of ocean habitats threatened by climate change and pollution.

For its expansive UAP team, the space agency turned to oceanographer Paula Bontempi, an expert in how light interacts with water.

Megalodon once dominated Earth's oceans. Despite vanishing from the fossil record millions of years ago, rumors persist that these gigantic sharks are still alive.

A weather pattern known as El Niño has formed over the pacific ocean, and scientists believe it could drastically increase global temperatures and trigger extreme events like droughts and cyclones.

The world's first international treaty on the high seas, set to be adopted by the United Nations on Monday, contains landmark tools for the conservation and management of international waters.

The ocean holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs almost 30% of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from human activities. This means the ocean is key to understanding the global carbon cycle and thus our future climate.

The scientific consensus is we need to aim for negative emissions by phasing out fossil fuels, not just removing carbon from the atmosphere

The search for habitable conditions beyond Earth has just become more interesting with the discovery of biologically available phosphorus from one of Saturn’s moons. Phosphorus is the most elusive of the six crucial elements needed for life.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is making arrangements to visit Japan in early July for meetings about the planned release into the ocean of treated water that contains tritium from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a government source said.