With the governor's rejection of a new management plan, some rules, including a ban on cruise ships flushing greywater near troubled reefs, won't take effect.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is planning to jettison 10 buildings it leases in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, ...

The Gulf Stream is a vital ocean current that moves warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Scientists have long studied its stability, knowing its collapse would have severe global ...

Studying coral reefs used to mean hours of grueling manual analysis, but artificial intelligence is changing the game. A new ...

Both climate change and human activities significantly impact the oceans by causing global warming, sea level rise, acidification, pollution, altered ...

The judge agreed with the National Marine Fisheries Service that its review of the annual harvest specifications sufficiently ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

An environmental group in the U.K. says the North Sea tanker collision could become a "disaster in really important protected ...

U.K. officials were watching for damage to birds and sea life after jet fuel poured into the North Sea when the ...

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world's rivers, streams and estuaries to a ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...