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, ...

According to a new report by the CSIRO, several Sydney wastewater treatment plants are discharging alarming amounts of microplastics into the ocean.

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 ...

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

After an explosive collision, a Stena Bulk MR tanker full of jet fuel and a Portugal-flagged container feeder vessel are both ...

The researchers will immerse plastic films in freshwater samples (taken from a canal in Lowell) and expose them to ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...