A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures, and recently, a massive whale shark, the world’s largest fish, ...

Industrial fishing removes large amounts of nutrients like carbon and phosphorus. This disrupts marine food webs.

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and ... tons of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.

The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical seagrass, despite the ...

Marine heatwaves can devastate our oceans. Is there a way to prevent them? What are marine heatwaves and why are they so ...

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie ...

(Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and her colleagues have documented a surprisingly lush and diverse marine ecosystem that includes corals, sponges, fish, giant sea spiders, octopuses ...