Oceans worldwide are undergoing rapid and unprecedented changes driven by human activities. Pollution from plastics, heavy metals, nutrients, and emerging ...

But beneath the waves, marine communities have their own variety of stunning architecture – with one major difference. While ...

FIU has a team of conservation scientists, protecting some of the world’s most endangered and threatened species.

Marine ecosystem ecology has advanced rapidly in recent decades, yet important knowledge gaps remain about how biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup ...

Science has made it clear: The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points ...

The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it ...

Nowhere is the powerful connection between conservation and commerce more apparent than with sea otters in the sanctuary.

There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in Raja Ampat. The remote archipelago is in eastern Indonesia where sharks, reef mantas and sea turtles glide alongside vast schools of fish through ...

Plankton are tiny, microscopic marine organisms that represent the very bottom of the food chain. Some are photosynthetic and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated prehistoric occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut, north of Greenland, indicating the first people in the High Arctic were skilled ...