Congress is working on a proposal that would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act and erase legal protections for dolphins, ...

Though hostile in appearance, the deep sea teems with life. Far from being barren, the abyss is likely home to millions of ...

The world's oceans are being rapidly transformed as climate change intensifies. Corals are bleaching, sea levels are rising, ...

A climate adaptation scientist is warning that drastic changes may be necessary along the American East Coast. According to ...

As trillions of algal cells multiply, die and sink, their decomposing cells strip oxygen from the water and block sunlight, ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) gains its authority to regulate deep-sea mining under the United Nations Law of the Sea, to which the U.S. is not party. TMC, however, could suffer ...

The “coastal ecosystem engineers” are thriving in man-made reefs of concrete and recycled shells that protect coastlines here ...

The Suisun Marsh, California's largest tidal wetland, is a part of the San Francisco Estuary, which provides water to ...

In the theatre of global self-destruction, few spectacles rival the plastic paradox: nations drowning in toxic chemicals of ...

A sudden flood from a hidden lake beneath Greenland's ice sheet reveals a powerful meltwater process not currently accounted ...