It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

A marine park in Australia is trying out a new way to help protect sea sponges. Marine biologist Dr Chris Gillies and his ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

Scientists in China have conducted a year-long study on six "aquavoltaics" farms hosting sea cucumber aquacultures under the ...

Tasmania. Every year, around 2000 marine mammals die in mass strandings worldwide. But this is not always for natural reasons ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny plankton are growing explosively beneath the surface. From a boat out on the fjord, Tore Mo-Bjørkelund launches a robot into the sea.

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge ...

Find out more about what happens when we bring art and science together. Discover the new exhibition at our Foundation.

These plant-like organisms attached to rocky shelves are ancient animals ... attract plankton, baby sponges and baby corals, [and] the hard surface creates the reef and colonises the sea bed ...

RSV Nuyina, the flagship icebreaker of the Australian Antarctic Program, will embark on its first ever dedicated marine ...

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...