A new study suggests the world's oxygen-depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the ...

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

A sea lion has a seizure at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. (William Liang/For The Times) The Trump administration's targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will ...

Key findingsArabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago than it is today, despite warmer climate conditions.Monsoons, ocean circulation ...

Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event. Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth’s warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event. All but the most specialist sea plankton moved to higher latitudes ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise—and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

One might have been beneath the ferry that you took to France. Another could have been beneath the boat that carried the banana you ate for lunch from the Caribbean. Right now, too, somewhere in the ...

Federal research and funding plays a crucial role in enabling scientists to monitor ocean conditions — including the domoic acid outbreak that is now killing hundreds of marine mammals up and down the ...