Shark and ray populations are struggling across the world due to overfishing and other threats. A new report delineates 816 areas of the ocean that should be protected to help them recover. The report ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Fujitsu uses a microwave-sized underwater drone that can zig-zag across the ocean floor, scanning and identifying plant species that gather CO2 and then store it.

Most people can point to the seven continents on a map, but the actual reality of these massive landmasses is […] ...

Fujitsu is developing underwater drones to measure carbon absorption by coastal ecosystems, aiming to boost the blue carbon ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools. The study, ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could survive and evolve.

Callum Roberts receives funding from Convex Insurance Group and EU Synergy, and UK Natural Environment Research Council. He is a board member of Nekton and Maldives Coral Institute. He was awarded a ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...