A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.’s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Sea lions, dolphins and birds are sick and dying because of a toxic algae bloom in Southern California—and animal care ...

Rust can be incredibly annoying if it appears on your new bicycle or car, but if you are a free-floating baby marine animal ...

The Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and Madagascar, is home to some of the most turbulent waters in the ocean.

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...