The global ocean heat content increased yet again in 2025, further raising the risk of catastrophic storms, sea-level rise, ...

In 2025, Earth’s oceans quietly hit a new heat record, absorbing a staggering 23 Zetta Joules of energy, roughly equivalent ...

Rising ocean temperatures also contribute to the loss of coral reefs, which help support fisheries, and protect coastlines ...

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the ...

A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations ...

Members of the Palau Marine Police unit, tasked with patrolling a stretch of sea as large as France, search a foreign fishing boat operating in Palau territorial waters in 2015. (Ben Lowy/The Outlaw ...

What is climate change doing to the ocean? Climate change is putting the ocean at risk. Warmer ocean waters cause sea levels to rise, damage coral reefs, and reduces the amount of oxygen in the water.

The ocean is one big body of water, but we have divided up the Earth into five oceans and about 50 designated seas. These oceans are called the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and the Arctic.

Ocean expert Dr. Austin Gallagher is working to protect our marine life, which is vital to the earth's biodiversity. He shares five ways to focus on "ocean optimism" when things seem gloomy You might ...

We're not far from where the expedition launched on Sunday. It was an hour and 45 minutes into the dive that the vessel lost contact with its mother ship. It's been lost and silent since then. Now, ** ...

There are many reasons to be worried about the state of the world’s oceans. But some scientists say it’s important to point to successes, in order to motivate people to take further, evidence-based ...