The world’s nations are gathering in France next month to tackle what the United Nations calls a global emergency facing the world’s oceans ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

One in three people relies on the oceans for their livelihood, yet they remain little-known, with neither global governance ...

Thousands of feet below sea level, the creatures that live in the deep sea survive without direct sunlight, plants or the ...

Israel launched a new devastating ground offensive in Gaza over the weekend just as US President Donald Trump departed the ...

USS Blue Ridge, a U.S. Navy command and control ship, has visited four countries in the South Pacific since mid- April.

The actual area observed on the seabed is too small to represent on a map at this scale. Credit: Ocean Discovery League ... Combine those countries with France and Germany, and together they ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have ...

Those three countries, with France ... years to map it all. “These estimates illustrate that we need a fundamental change in how we explore and study the global deep ocean,” the author write ...

Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images Four small coral islands, an atoll and a reef in the Indian Ocean are at the centre of geopolitical tensions between France and Madagascar.

but how they infiltrate critical ocean systems. Researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution patterns by size and ...