A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

“The ocean has boundaries that are invisible to us but known to all sorts of microbes and animals that live there,” Hawco said. “The North Pacific Transition Zone is one of these boundaries.

A new study reveals that 21% of the ocean has gotten darker over the last two decades, making the photic zone thinner in multiple areas.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

The US Navy has made a major decision to allocate maintenance responsibilities for one of its auxiliary ships to Hanwha Ocean, a South Korean company, at its plant in Geoje on an island province ...

Planting zones are warming — affecting which plants thrive in different U.S. regions. This trend is likely to continue as global temperatures rise.

The biological foundation of the twilight zone is algae on the ocean’s surface, which use photosynthesis to convert water and carbon dioxide, the main gas contributing to climate change, into ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Ca ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.