Marine life in the Santa Monica Bay faces ongoing threats from heavy metals released in the water after January’s Palisades Fire, according to water-quality testing results reported Thursday. Heal the ...

Experts from Plymouth Marine Laboratory have been working to test local waters.

By 2050, the combined impacts of climate change and human activity on the ocean could be two to three times greater than they are today. Without urgent efforts to reduce these threats, a new study ...

Climate Study: Oceans have provided us with food, jobs, travel opportunities, transportation, and resources for thousands of years. They are vast and powerful and help us support human life. However, ...

NOAA’s Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Animals initiative deployed advanced satellite technology and artificial intelligence to detect marine life from space and support conservation—a ...

Researchers find plastic waste in Black Sea transports toxic substances, raising risks for marine ecosystems, human health. - ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

A study from the University of Aberdeen has revealed a new approach to evaluating the ecological impacts of offshore activities. The paper is published in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

Starfish cling to the metal surface of an unexploded World War II warhead in the German Baltic Sea. The discarded weapons host a surprisingly dense colony of organisms. Once designed to destroy, they ...

Corpus Christi researchers have found fentanyl and other pharmaceuticals in Gulf of Mexico dolphins. Since 2022, students and faculty at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi have tested blubber from 89 ...