It’s easy to think of the ocean as a permanent fixture, given how ancient it is. But those salty waters had to come from something, somewhere. How did we end up with this vast, shimmering source of ...

Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental organisation ...

National Geographic announced Tuesday that it is officially recognizing the Southern Ocean as the Earth's fifth ocean. The announcement was made to coincide with World Oceans Day. The Southern Ocean ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

Tiny bits of plastic have infiltrated the deep sea’s main food source and could alter the ocean’s role in one of Earth’s ancient cooling processes, scientists say. Credit... Supported by By Sabrina ...

The ocean has absorbed about 30% of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities since the Industrial Revolution, significantly slowing the pace of climate change. But as emissions continue to rise, ...

In 2005, hatchery-grown oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest began mysteriously dying by the millions. Then it happened again in 2006. And again in 2007 and 2008. Oceanographers and fisheries ...

Over the last five decades, we’ve burned enough coal, gas and oil, cut down enough trees, and produced enough other emissions to trap some six billion Hiroshima bombs’ worth of heat inside the climate ...

Do tiny floating microorganisms in the ocean's surface waters play a massive role in controlling the global climate? Adapted from Principles of Biology published by Nature Education. The ocean is ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the farthest reaches of the ocean. A teen from Ireland may have found the solution to rid world's oceans from the microplastics that are near impossible to ...