In a nutshell Cruise ship anchors are causing visible and long-lasting damage to Antarctica’s fragile seafloor ecosystems, including nearby ancient sponges that may be up to 15,000 years old.

Europe has many sizeable countries with expansive topographical features to match. Here are the biggest organized from least ...

This 338-acre slice of paradise sits on Whitefish Bay, where Lake Superior shows off its best impression of an ocean, minus the sharks, jellyfish, and that sticky salt residue that turns beach hair ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to capture crucial data about the planet’s future.

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild conditions.

Computer models of ocean tides shed light on the formation of three large mud patches on the north-west European shelf: the Fladen Ground (top), Western Irish Sea (middle) and Celtic Deep mud belts.

The Coast Guard’s new commercial icebreaker is enroute to the West Coast ahead of its August commissioning in Alaska, marking a milestone in the effort to rebuild U.S. defenses in the Arctic Region.

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...