Why it's incredible: The passage is one of the world's most dangerous ocean crossings. The Drake Passage is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula.

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to save them as risks to the world’s oceans multiply ...

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...

An artistic visualization of ocean currents from NASA has people mesmerized learning about our planet's underwater highways.

More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans remain unmapped and unobserved, according to NOAA. Since the 1990s, a network of ...

If the missing Titan submersible was near the Titanic when it imploded, it would have experienced pressure higher than that of a great white shark bite If the Titan has become stranded at lower depths ...

The Global Ocean Observing System informs weather forecasts and climate projections. But funding pressures could create data ...

The ocean isn't alright. The seas, which hold some 332,519,000 cubic miles of water, are warming, rising, acidifying, and losing oxygen. And a new comprehensive U.N. climate special report, released ...

Microplastics may be disrupting phytoplankton and weakening the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon, according to a new study.

Marine microplastics affect algae's ability to grow and photosynthesize. Researchers have now calculated what impact this has ...

This year is on track to be the third consecutive hottest year on record. Where does that heat go? The oceans, mostly. -2°C 0 +2 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s Average temperatures from each decade compared ...

Weighing just over 500 grams when he was rescued at Struisbaai in 2020, Kai now weighs a healthy 100 kilograms!