As an Australian navy vessel continues to comb the Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the mammoth scale of the challenge is becoming ever clearer. The Ocean Shield ...

Try to imagine your life without plastic: it’s in your smartphone, your car, your clothing, your toiletries. All that plastic ends up somewhere, and more and more, that place is the ocean. In fact, ...

Our oceans are getting more and more acidic - but why? Though the planet's oceans maintained a relatively constant level of acidity almost since the boom of life, research shows that since the ...

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The European Commission has ruled that Apple should repay up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in back taxes to Ireland. After a three year investigation, the Commission concluded that Apple's tax ...

Did you know that 70% of the oxygen we breathe is produced by marine plants? While the deep blue sea may seem mysterious and even foreign, the oceans are fundamentally tied to our health and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1610, when Galileo Galilei turned his telescope toward Jupiter, he saw four tiny points of ...

Tanks containing seawater, sand, rocks, and animals can have their water temperature and acidity controlled to reflect current conditions (right) and those that may result from climate change.

Underwater mountains in the ocean passage between South America and Antarctica mix midlevel seawater dramatically, new research suggests. This churning of waters in the Southern Ocean plays a huge ...