The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

AS the entire world ground to a halt in autumn 2020, Lake Munmorah photographer Aaron Brown was at the Newcastle Baths one afternoon, camera in hand. What caught his eye was a swimmer at the end of the lap pool lit up like "a magnificent candle" by the receding western…

Sick of ocean debris washing up near his home on the Tasman Peninsula, Sam McLennan has an ambitious plan — build a raft made entirely out of the materials and sail it across the Bass Strait to kickstart conversations about protecting the marine environment.

Officially it is just a research vessel, but China's newly unveiled drone carrier is a clear sign Beijing is rushing to deploy an autonomous swarm of unmanned devices in its push for military supremacy in the Pacific Ocean. State media last month showed the launching of the Zhu Hai Yun…

From Hobart to Brisbane, marine scientists are assessing tsunami risk, huge submarine landslides and deep marine canyons, hoping the findings will help prevent future disasters.

Scientists are watching an area in Pacific Ocean that has been unusually cool – a signal current La Niña could linger

President Joe Biden is launched a renewed push to reduce the costs of shipping goods across oceans

Scientists have used DNA to link her to a male found in 1906 on a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean.

Billions of people around the world rely on the ocean for food, income and cultural identity. But climate change, overfishing and habitat destruction are unraveling ocean ecosystems.

The non-profit group Ocean Cleanup has installed a huge, steel-mesh screen on a heavily polluted river outside Guatemala, in a bid to stop plastics and other debris before they reach the ocean