While many countries have agreed to take steps to protect the vast, ungoverned swathes of the world's oceans, they have yet ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies ...

Dozens of research and exploration vessels have set sail off the French coastal city of Nice across across the Baie des Anges ...

filled with new bathymetric – or seafloor – charts collected by survey vessels and research ships cruising the seas. The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more.

After 19 years of negotiations, a historic agreement has been reached to protect the world's oceans and ensure all the world's people can benefit from the high seas while also protecting marine life.

In addition, oceans are much deeper, with an average depth of about 12,000 feet while the Mediterranean Sea, one of the world’s largest seas, has an average depth of about half that of oceans.

such as deep sea mining, before they start and a pledge by signatories to share ocean resources. “This is a historic day for conservation and a sign that in a divided world, protecting nature ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed ... reveal the location and speed of rising sea levels and the shift of coastlines, key to ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is ...