Oceans are experiencing sudden temperature changes due to climate change, affecting marine ecosystems and global fisheries.

Marine ecosystem ecology has advanced rapidly in recent decades, yet important knowledge gaps remain about how biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ...

Our inshore ocean ecosystem is suffering from multiple stressors and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could be helping us find causes and make improvements.

It's a common misconception that rainforests are the lungs of Earth. Our oceans produce most of the oxygen we consume and are ...

A new AI-driven method called GOFLOW is turning weather satellite images into highly detailed maps of ocean currents. By ...

Yachts equipped with high-tech but user-friendly environmental DNA kits are building a more comprehensive picture of how life ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Researchers at the University of Washington took a novel approach to determine the historical health of Alaska's waters.

How we feed the future is a critical challenge of our time. Yet too often, the focus remains on land, forgetting that the ...

A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA Scientists have long understood that microbes, zooplankton, and fish are vital sources of recycled nitrogen in coastal waters. But ...

California’s coastal waters are experiencing a marine heat wave, with record or near-record ocean temperatures reported along ...