The maritime transport sector emits as much greenhouse gas as the aviation industry, which is why the world’s major private ...

A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to ...

Politics is roiling the waters that should connect us, writes the U.N. Global Compact Special Adviser for Ocean.

“We’re focused on continental shelves, the underwater extensions of land masses. They go down to about 200 metres, which means the entirety of the Arabian Gulf is continental shelf,” said Prof Roberts ...

Have you ever looked at a map and wondered why there are almost no direct flights or shipping routes between Australia and Chile, despite both countries being relatively close across the South Pacific ...

Oceans are the large, linked bodies of saltwater that have approximately 71% of the surface area on Earth and contribute ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words for snow and ice.

Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents weakens, according to a new study — an alarming glimpse into the future as some ...

But we humans have drawn our own lines across these paths, based on our fisheries, shipping routes, and national borders ... the ranges of many species towards the poles, messing with ocean currents, ...

Scientists have come up with a new high-resolution map of the ocean floor. The newly released findings show ... including rare-mineral seabed mining, optimizing shipping routes, hazard detection, and ...

While Magellanic penguins are known to breed in and around South America on rocky, sandy beaches before migrating each winter to the open ocean as ... and regulate shipping routes to reduce ...

By cutting travel distances for major shipping routes, the canal could increase direct investment ... altering water flow between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand could impact ocean currents, ...