The most intense warming, which occurred in the North Atlantic, tropical Pacific, South Pacific and North Pacific, accounted ...

Contender is pretty big for a male, sure. But in great white shark size contests, it's the females who take the cake.

For years, scientists have struggled to solve the "plastic paradox"—the mystery of millions of tons of missing plastic.

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Yet, in a relatively short period of time, humans and their technological arsenal have driven most shark populations to the verge of extinction. This is bad news for the world's oceans. Sharks are the ...

Findings of unexpected large numbers of fin and humpback whales in the previously ice infested waters of East Greenland now indicate a tipping point in the marine ecosystem from one regime to ...

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Offshore wind farms not only deliver clean energy but can also play a vital role in restoring vulnerable ecosystems both above and below the waterline. This includes seabed habitats, coral reefs, ...

In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the ...

The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska are recovering from extreme marine heatwaves that struck in recent years, according to the ecosystem status reports issued for those regions.