The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, whalers killed roughly 2 million large whales in the Southern Ocean. Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale, were reduced…

A pair of 2015 astronaut photos taken just minutes apart shows the eye of tropical cyclone Bansi illuminated by two lightning strikes as the storm raged in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar.

Last year Antarctica’s sea ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less than that

NASA approves Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to explore potential for life in suspected ocean beneath icy crust.

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NASA has given the go-ahead to next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa

AMAZING footage captured by a passenger on a CalMac ferry off the Scottish coast shows dozens of dolphins leaping out from the ocean ...

As a lifelong surfer, born to pioneering surfing parents and named after a wave, the ocean has shaped my identity and sense of belonging. The movement and touch of ocean waves ignites a whole cascade of changes in emotions in me and affects how I sense the world around me.…

The post-metal band are progressive musically and in their approach to rigs – but there are practical reasons for it too

Climate crisis is driving key predators from their homes and threatening an already embattled ecosystem

Francis visit to Papua New Guinea is part of his four-nation tour of southeast Asia and Oceania