Ocean

Researchers from Ritsumeikan University in Japan have developed a novel behavior-based framework for sustainable plastic management.

A new initiative to monitor and document the status of marine life in the Mediterranean Sea has been launched.

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) BIO-Carbon program is studying the various ways carbon dioxide is stored by marine life using robots.

Great Britain is getting ever closer to banning sales of shark fins in the country.

NOAA is one step closer to establishing a proposed National Marine Sanctuary along New York State's eastern Lake Ontario.

Two studies have shed light on planetary events 100 million years ago by looking at the fossilized remains of deformed seashells.

Researchers have managed use fungi to transform plastic refuse from the Pacific Ocean into pharmaceutical industry ingredients.

Researchers have studied the fossilized remains of fish from the ocean's "Twilight Zone" to find out how these species responded to climate warming.

A new study has revealed that the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not a foregone conclusion, and local environmental conditions can slow it.

A recent study of high-quality ice cores taken from central north Greenland has shown that global warming has well and truly reached the island.

Three species of coral that were taken out of reefs in Bonaire and grown in nurseries have been returned to the reefs, the Reef Renewal Foundation Bonaire announced this week.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week that "Nimbus," a 15-year-old male North Atlantic Right Whale, was spotted off the coast of Georgia entangled in a fishing net.

Scientists from the National University of Singapore's Tropical Marine Science Institute have created a new echo sonar inspired by dolphins.

Researchers have discovered four genes that have allowed whales to reach enormous sizes in comparison to their ancestors.