The recent sighting of a gray whale near Nantucket has captivated the scientific community. Once thought extinct in the ...

Thousands of gray whales are migrating past the Oregon coast in poor condition, with record-low calf numbers and visible ...

Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

The findings are part of a growing body of work showing that even in far-flung parts of the Arctic, plastic pollution is ...

Whale pee is a precious resource for ocean ecosystems, as revealed by a new study on the impact of the "great whale pee ...

The Arctic Ocean is undergoing drastic changes, and scientists are raising alarms about the process of atlantification, which ...

“That tells us that what we have are thriving, diverse, and well-established ecosystems under the ice shelf,” says Patricia Esquete, a marine ecologist at the University of Aveiro, Portugal ...