Oceans

Some scientists say the controversial fishing practice of ocean trawling stirs up buried organic matter, some of which makes its way to the surface in the form of carbon dioxide

As the climate crisis continues, sooner or later the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet will collapse. An unassuming octopus just gave scientists an important clue about how quickly that might happen

A giant iceberg called A23a, which broke off from Antarctica in 1986, is finally moving away from the icy continent after being stuck on the seafloor for decades

PFAS can enter the food chain through marine plants and animals and hurt human health

We can’t put a price on a healthy biosphere. We must instead reorient our economy into one that values the living world

A deep-sea expedition discovers a strange, dark world of strawberry squid and ratfish in cold-water corals near the Galápagos Islands

Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glacial and ice-sheet-melting physics

A facility off the coast of Oregon is being constructed to test devices to harness wave power that resemble everything from buoys to carpets

A hydrogeologist explains the shifting balance between fresh and salt water at the coast as sea levels rise

Eight pages hidden in an archive led to the discovery of the story of Christine Essenberg

Mining the seafloor could boost global production of clean energy technology—and destroy the ocean in the process

Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot off California