Hovering underwater, I felt as if I were witnessing a form of planetary circulation. Nutrients moving from forest to coast, ...

Hawaiians have been harvesting fish sustainably for generations, tending traditional ponds known as loko iʻa. The ...

The study suggests that physically informed AI can do more than interpolate missing data; it can help connect satellite ...

The Gulf menhaden fishery has earned recertification from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), reaffirming its strong environmental performance and science-based management after rigorous, multi-year ...

Ocean Discovery League (ODL) has launched the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, an ambitious international effort to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The World War II shipwrecks scattered across Australian ...

The understanding of jellyfish ecology has broadened considerably in recent years, reshaping our perceptions of marine ecosystems. Once deemed trophic dead ends with minimal influence, jellyfish are ...

A team of researchers have found that the ocean is facing a new set of issues. They found that the ocean "flips" are ...

There are numerous ways scientists measure the impacts of climate change. Sometimes it’s by what they see, or maybe even by what they smell. In a recent case, it’s by what they hear. Whale calls. That ...

New Zealand's earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine protected areas, typically focused on shallow ecosystems, largely because that is ...

Warm water could bring exotic sea life, but also kill kelp, and more frequent storms could spell trouble for the region ...