Earth's ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to temper the impact of climate change but increasing ocean ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

The concentration of salt in the ocean doesn’t change much, so plant and animal life don’t have anything to worry about, ...

A diver surveys a coral reef on Nov, 27, 2017 near the Comoros archipelago, Indian Ocean.Alexis Rosenfeld—Getty Images When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques ...

Did you know that the ocean produces approximately half of the world's oxygen? Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries, like a painkiller found in a sea snail? It's all true! And so is ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...