The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

Countries have shown a united front for ambition after talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty collapsed last year.

At the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, Unesco and the Plastic Odyssey expedition have announced a partnership aimed at restoring the world’s most endangered marine World Heritage sites, increasingly under threat from plastic pollution.

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the ocean shortly after taking off from San Diego and killing all six people aboard

Marine Minister Emma Hardy said a bill will be introduced to enable ratification of the pact to establish protected areas in international waters.

Move comes after efforts at UN ocean summit to establish marine protected areas in international waters

Researchers have filmed a living Antarctic gonate squid in a world-first sighting deep in the ocean surrounding Antarctica.

World leaders gathered for the UN Ocean Conference in Nice on Monday called for strict rules to govern deep-sea mining and warned against racing to exploit the ocean floor. This comes amid growing anxiety over US President Donald Trump's unilateral push to fast-track the practice in international waters.

Sea-based car shipments to the United States fell off a cliff in May, down over 70 percent versus the same time last year, according to Automotive News. Citing trade database Descartes Datamyne, the report claims there were nearly 10,000 fewer vehicles imported via ocean ports.

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson on Monday announced that his country is on track to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). The ambitious objective, spanning nearly 23 percent of the archipelago's waters, came on the first day of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice.