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Plastic is everywhere -- literally.
Worry not -- alternatives are readily available, so don't cancel your vay-cay just yet.
"Piracy and geopolitical tensions" kept it hidden from the scientific community until now.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
These are not the waves we're looking for.
They recorded 184 different songs from a population of about 300 individuals.
A surprise lurking below the surface.
We're not giving them any other option.
Otherwise, we can expect an ice-free Arctic.
Yikes.
Minke whales are grossly understudied, but researchers hope to fix that.
Beware ye who swim here.
The Arctic's getting really hot.
That's a lot of fishing.
These hatchlings emerge fully-formed, ready to take on the world from day one.b
The miracle of life.
We have a massive plastic pollution problem, with no solution in sight.
Researchers also discovered gorgeous cenotes that may be connected with Maya religious beliefes.
The clock is ticking.
Scientists have identified yet another unexpected consequence of climate change.
Not many animals eat jellyfish because they are mostly made of water, but they are starting to take over the oceans.
The Arctic is screwed.
We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.
Potentially catastrophic for Pacific salmon.
The reefs seem healthier... let's try to keep them that way.
We've just started discovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of deep sea creatures.
Istanbul residents were delighted with the bright and milky water, as they were quick to point out on social media.
It's not a good year for the environment.
It was a turning point for the Earth's geological and climatic history.
A fish has no face.
The starfish are worse for the reefs than bleaching and disease combined.
It is not looking good.
It's even worse than we thought.
Microbeads are slowly killing off oceanic wildlife -- and that's affecting us as well.
It's like the ocean is having a heart attack.
Sorry, no good news.
The oceans are as beautiful as they are bizarre.
Given the sheer size of whales, it should be no surprise that they make some very important contributions to ecosystems.
They call it the "Jacuzzi of Despair" and rarely has a name been so fitting.
They've collected staggering amounts of data.
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
Whales > Judges.
The consequences are not known at the moment.
We all know the pain and harrowing loneliness of losing a loved one, and it seems whales do too.
Human activity has been wreaking havoc on ocean life. One group however seems to thrive where others struggle to survive: new evidence shows that cephalopods' numbers have significantly increased over the last six decades.
If you've ever seen one up close you probably know that corals are insanely beautiful, but not exactly action packed -- these animals live at their own pace, one so slow that to a human being they might seem frozen in time. But what would coral look like if it lived in 'normal' speed?
Ken Buesseler studies marine radioactivity. He uses radioactive elements such as thorium that are naturally occurring in the ocean as a technique to study the ocean’s carbon cycle, as well as fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and recently, the sources of radionuclides from Fukushima Dai-ichi in 2011. Following the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the subsequent tsunami, […]
The voracious reputation of sharks might soon change as marine biologists uncover that most coral reef sharks eat pray smaller than a cheeseburger.
Carbon dioxide acts like a greenhouse gas and can heat a planet's atmosphere - nothing new so far. But it can be so potent...
The global fish stocks are depleting at alarming rates, much faster than reported by the UN, a study found.
