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 Gainers Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. (NASDAQ: OBCI) shares jumped 116.6% to $12.82 after the company announced it will be acquired by OneWater Marine for $13.08 per share in cash.

Water ice on ocean planets could transport electrolytes to the seafloor, opening up the potential for nutrient transport in some TRAPPIST-1 worlds.

Tom Mann said partner Dani was his "entire world"

Bureau of Meteorology says winter will be wetter than average and a rare three-in-a-row La Niña is still on the cards

It’s that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit peak blubber to blubber as humpback whales migrate up Australia’s east and west coasts from Antarctic waters.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch.

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — Snorkeling in sparkling, shallow water as clear as glass, my husband and I spotted schools of gemstone-bright fish in colors of sapphire, topaz and amethyst. On the white sand bed of the sea near a tiny atoll, slow-moving heavy-shelled conch sort of rolled along…

Welcome to whale season. Get to know these iconic visitors from the Southern Ocean, meet the people who study them, and find out how you can become a citizen scientist.