The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

The Madagascar Ridge, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, is a remote, elevated area of seabed south of Madagascar. In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; a catshark that we named Bach’s catshark (Bythaelurus bachi) after German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. (In…

Want better surfing for the Olympics? Get off Teahupo'o, away from the shore all together, and onto a wave machine. Really.

Discover the Lost City, a unique hydrothermal field beneath the Atlantic Ocean, offering insights into life origins on Earth and beyond. Explore its divers...

Two people were pulled from the Atlantic Ocean by boaters

Recent marine research unveils 'dark oxygen' production challenging traditional beliefs about oxygen origins in the Pacific Ocean.

A 2020 satellite photo shows "blackwater" flowing from South Carolina's Winyah Bay after Hurricane Sally made landfall and triggered flash flooding.

If you ask someone where plastic ends up, they will usually say the ocean. It’s not a surprising answer because we have known since the 1970s that plastic is accumulating in the subtropical oceans, far from land.

A SCOTTISH woman who completed “the world’s toughest row” across the Pacific Ocean has broken her second world record.

It was previously thought that only photosynthetic organisms such as plants and algae generate Earth’s oxygen

In the total darkness of the depths of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered oxygen being produced not by living organisms but by strange potato-shaped metallic lumps that give off almost as much electricity as AA batteries.

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen."