The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

A new study takes a comprehensive look at the plastic debris smothering reefs, where in the ocean it's more prevalent — and how to deal with the problem.

A tangle of litigation could delay the start of New Jersey’s first offshore wind energy project

The sea is becoming greener due to changes in plankton populations, analysis of Nasa images finds

The colour shifts have occurred over 56 per cent of the world’s oceans, with scientists in the UK certain that the cause of it is down to human-induced climate change

A member of an Edinburgh sports group has helped launch a petition to save Transgression Park, after it was announced that Ocean Terminal would be closing the venue to replace it with a bingo hall.

The Klamath River runs over 250 miles (400 kilometers) from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. It flows through the steep, rugged Klamath Mountains, past slopes of redwood, fir, tanoak and madrone, and along pebbled beaches where willows shade the river’s edge. Closer to its mouth at…

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video for its ill-fated US$250,000-per-head trip to see the wreck of the Titanic, it told prospective passengers to “Get ready for what Jules Verne could only imagine – a 12,500-foot journey to the bottom of the sea.” Those behind the video…

The unprecedented water temperatures — reaching up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit in some places — could intensify storms and hurricanes in the Sunshine State.

El Niño is a weather event that takes place every two to seven years and sees the warming of the Pacific Ocean which charges parts of the atmosphere, leading to more extreme weather events

The annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, appears to have evolved to see an extended palette of colours after its ancestors lost that ability in response to changing environments, according to a new paper published in Genome Biology and Evolution…

El Niño, global heating and warming oceans. Plus: The pain of extreme hoarding.