New research claims that Earth's oceans could one day turn purple as our ongoing fight with climate change continues.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...

It’s day one of sea turtle nesting season, which means volunteers with Share the Beach are already on patrol. “We are looking ...

Sunflower sea stars discovered taking refuge in fjords may offer clues to saving the critically endangered species from sea star wasting disease.

These synthetic materials have now become part of both the life and carbon cycles, from the surface to the deepest parts of ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

Issy, now 16, said that prior to becoming visually impaired she had "loved" her work with the cadets, adding: "You're ...

And it had traveled from somewhere far beyond our galaxy.

While Florida might see blooms of seaweed this season, that doesn’t mean all beaches will be full of it through October. The sargassum will show up on beaches in clumps when the tide is high and the ...

A Maryland mom’s beach day took a wild turn when her daughter spotted something slithering out of the ocean — and it wasn’t ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...