The Trump administration is opening a national marine monument to commercial fishing, it announced Thursday. The White House ...

Industrial fishing removes large amounts of nutrients like carbon and phosphorus. This disrupts marine food webs.

These commitments came at the Fifteenth Intergovernmental Session of UNESCO’s IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters ... “In addition, terrestrial ecosystems underwent ...

Researchers created DNA tools that detect deep-sea marine animals like squids and octopuses by analyzing ocean water.

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean ... features of the global ocean and play a vital role in marine ecosystems. Eddies, which form in biologically ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

A hidden ecosystem ... Falkor (too), marine ecologist Christian Aldea examines a sea star under the microscope in the ship’s Wet Lab. Photograph by Alex Ingle, Schmidt Ocean Institute That ...