Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the world’s waters, fish are making a quiet, biological retreat. The once simple ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

An El Niño event combined with other weather phenomena led to record level sea rise in African oceans during 2023 and 2024.

Coral reefs over the past 12,000 years grew best when the ocean temperature was 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), ...

A new study finds ocean cycles disrupt synchronized global drought, reducing the risk of simultaneous crop failures worldwide ...

Something strange is happening beneath the surface of the world's oceans, and scientists are paying close attention. Currents ...

As the saying goes, there are plenty more fish in the sea—but climate change is rapidly challenging that notion, with fish stocks around the world under threat. New modeling from Monash University ...

Nancy Caruso’s Get Inspired program has been giving the green abalone a human helping hand for the past two decades.

Throughout both this scene and the series in its entirety, the breathtaking landscapes are complemented by CGI so realistic that one might wonder how Spielberg resurrected the beasts. With the ...

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Advocates say commercial alligator farming has helped preserve a species often seen as scary, bothersome or good only for their skins. Not all conservationists think that’s a good thing, but for the ...