A new study suggests the world's oxygen-depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the ...

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...

Key findingsArabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago than it is today, despite warmer climate conditions.Monsoons, ocean circulation ...

A sea lion has a seizure at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. (William Liang/For The Times) The Trump administration's targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will ...

Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction event. Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's ...

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

Fossilised plankton from the Arabian Sea reveals oxygen levels in oceans may recover after global warming, say University of Southampton scientists.

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

Federal research and funding plays a crucial role in enabling scientists to monitor ocean conditions — including the domoic acid outbreak that is now killing hundreds of marine mammals up and down the ...