Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a “huge rotating current system between ...

Corals have long captured the medical imagination. As Earth heats up, we might want to take our linked fates more seriously. It is easy to see how rising temperatures threaten humans and corals alike.

At the end of summer, companies and individuals often leave behind fishing lines and crab nets, creating hazards that can ...

To celebrate World Ocean Day 2026, the National Maritime Museum is publishing a new illustrated book, The Ocean Map, and ...

Coral reefs hide "scientific treasures" that have survived for centuries, yet many of these giant, ancient organisms remain ...

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Thinking about a marine career? See how marine biologists compare with aquarists, from college majors to hands‑on animal care ...

Coral reefs are important in many ways, but they also play a major role in protecting much of the world's coastlines from ...

Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing technique used to hunt marine life en masse, produces carbon dioxide emissions on the ...

Zain Smith is a first-year PhD student studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.