Life originated in the ocean and there are many more major groups of animals there than on land! For example echinoderms (starfish, urchins, etc.) only occur in the ocean. Despite this, there are far ...

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Researchers recently captured the first live footage of a colossal quid in its natural habitat, thousands of feet under the ...

It's no surprise the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most Googled natural wonders on Earth. This living icon boasts over ...

A 45 minute sea plane from Malé airport, Dhigali is a luxury resort set atop a slender coral cay within the Raa Atoll of the ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing. Sea ice loss has far-reaching effects on the planet because the ice helps ...

Over the past decade, disease has killed off around five billion sunflower sea stars, disrupting underwater ecosystems from Alaska to California. Now, the starfish are being released back into the ...

The first Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue was mandated by COP 25, Chile Madrid Time for Action 2019 (paras 30-31 and 33-34), and held in December 2020. The Glasgow Climate Pact welcomed the summary ...

Here are the key developments on the 1,063rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Starfish are a keystone species and had ... eating most things living on the bottom of the ocean, including sea urchins, said Gehman, who's also an adjunct professor in the UBC Institute of ...

The ocean is a vast natural sponge for carbon dioxide ... according to a 2021 report from the International Council for the Exploration of Sea. “To me, it seems like a no-brainer,” van ...