The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic copepods feasting on the head of a deep sea rattail fish.

The blaze covered more than 8,500 acres, with 3,000 residents forced to evacuate their homes and 25,000 without power

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

The packages were reportedly tossed into the ocean by smugglers hoping to evade capture during a drug raid

Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear

Geopolitical tensions are heating up on Canada’s borders, but the biggest threat may be from wildly fluctuating temperatures transforming the tundra and ocean

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of metres below. These hidden waterfalls are a key part of the global ocean’s overturning circulation – a vast conveyor belt of…