The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

LOS ANGELES — First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground — and that as many as half a million…

The world’s oceans are buffering us from the worst climate impacts by taking up more than 90% of the excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. This has warmed them by 0.88℃ (on average globally), according to the latest climate report released this week.

These weather disasters provide a glimpse of lies ahead for planet Earth if humankind fails to stop climate change progress.

Plumbing the depths of our fear of the ocean, this clever and compelling video game will suck you in for hours at a time

A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts made its debut launch Wednesday night, passing a critical milestone. But it failed after three minutes of flight, crashing into the ocean.

BAY CENTER, Wash. — To reach the ocean crabbing grounds from this Southwest Washington community, Mike Green must navigate his boat through the seas that churn across the mouth of Willapa Bay. There are no jetties to sweep out the piling sediments, or buoys to mark a channel through the…

A third man left clinging to an esky in waters off Albany has been charged over a massive alleged cocaine haul after he was found hiding under a home spa.

The record-breaking cyclone that formed off the Western Australian coast is among the most energetic ever recorded. Did climate change play a part?

800 million years ago, Earth's oceans saw an increase in nitrogen, which scientists believe gave a boost to multicellular life.

Increasing ocean temperatures present ‘existential threat’ with knock-on effects for ecosystems and commercial fisheries, researchers say

There's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed