By Milliam MurigiAfter nearly 20 years of negotiations, a historic treaty has entered into force to conserve and sustainably ...

Deep in the South China Sea, scientists from Chinese marine research institutes, including the First Institute of ...

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.

After an initial period of wariness, China has thrown its backing behind the junta. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Global warming is transforming Greenland at an astonishing pace, revealing valuable mineral deposits and opening up new trade ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The High Seas Treaty took effect Jan. 17, creating the first global framework to protect and manage the vast waters beyond national borders that cover more than 40 percent of the planet. Humanity ...

Redwing is autonomous underwater glider expected to circle the world in a little over four years, then return to Cape Cod.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.