The United States is making a big splash to save our oceans by rolling out its first conservation strategy to protect the great blue seas. In June, the White House released its National Ocean ...

An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of management ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Sea Center invites the community to celebrate Underwater Parks Day with a free, family event, 10 ...

WASHINGTON — Today the science academies of the G-7 countries issued three joint statements to their respective governments to inform discussions during the G-7 summit to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, ...

The oceans—engines of life on Earth and our single greatest climate regulator—are caught in a catch 22. We urgently need to decarbonize our economy, which means rolling out renewable energy on a ...

Scientists have discovered 866 new marine species, including a guitar shark, a deep-sea mollusk with cancer treatment potential, and the first octocoral found in the Maldives, Oceanographic Magazine ...

U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The past 12 months brought landslide multilateral wins for ocean ...

The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater mountain in western Europe. Formed where the African and Eurasian tectonic ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

The decision was made at the CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) ...