How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fishery

A novel citizen science project in New Caledonia finds an 'astonishing' number of venomous reptiles in a popular swimming spot.

A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from the brink of extinction.

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UN Environment Programme publish first annual New Plastics Economy Global Commitment progress report

Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are only just beginning to understand their full potential.

Research undermines widely held idea that favorable conditions in winter habitat make up for the long, arduous migratory flights

Three new global initiatives for mapping the world’s entire ocean floor have been announced in London at a special conference organized by The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, the international collaborative project to produce a complete, freely available map of the seafloor by the year 2030.