The world’s oceans have warmed by an average of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since preindustrial times, and now researchers say the rising temperatures have had immense impacts on the population sizes of marine species.
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A worm may be hitching a ride on your next plate of sushi – and it’s not some trendy new food craze.
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An international team of marine scientists has discovered not just one but two new species of the rarely seen six-gilled sawshark in the West Indian Ocean.
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New sightings of a rare whale species has led the government to set a speed limit on boats navigating waters east of Boston and to extend restrictions southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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A wildlife organization announced an unprecedented move in asking Mexico’s government to enforce an injunction to prevent the widespread killing of three species of hammerhead sharks.
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As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans continues to increase, scientists revealed in research Monday that the danger is increased for turtles because they often mistake plastic for food.
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Human-caused undersea noise from ships stress out shore crabs, weakening their defenses and leaving them vulnerable to predators, according to research released Monday.
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A dozen sea turtles that nearly froze when they were too far north last fall as water temperatures abruptly plunged in New Jersey survived that ordeal but remain threatened by the pneumonia most of them developed afterward.
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California officials laid out an ambitious and sweeping plan Wednesday to combat the climate crisis threatening the California coast.
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Rescuers in Mexico were partially able to free a humpback whale that became entangled in a fishing net illegally set inside a refuge for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, a conservationist group said Monday.
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Marine biologists have designed a new tool that allows them to conduct undersea research in a much more environmentally friendly way by using trailblazing “soft robotic linguine fingers.”
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While environmental conservation still maintains a terrestrial focus, an increasing number of scientific researchers are calling for a heightened concentration on the need for oceanic care.
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Up to half a million mussels were effectively cooked in the wild in unusually balmy waters on the New Zealand coast in a massive “die-off” that marine experts have linked to climate change.
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A Southern California aquarium has successfully bred the rare weedy sea dragon, the lesser known cousin of the sea horse that resembles seaweed when floating.
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Conservationists on a Sea Shepherd vessel out to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise came under gun fire in the upper Gulf of California over the weekend by men in small boats.
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A conservation group urged the federal government Thursday to protect an inhabitant of the eighth-largest lake in the United States — a rare colony of about 400 freshwater seals.
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The federal government is asking vessels to slow down in an area south of Nantucket because approximately one eighth of the worldwide population of an endangered whale has been spotted nearby.
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Canada’s plan to triple the oil flowing through a government pipeline could move forward after a court dismissed challenges from four indigenous groups who claimed the project will poison their water and imperil endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
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A new disease has caused open sores that can eat into the muscles of invasive lionfish and appears to have contributed to an abrupt drop in their numbers in the northern Gulf of Mexico, scientists reported Tuesday. But they hasten to say it’s probably far from the end of the showy invader with long, venomous spines.
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The dugong once thrived along the shores of Okinawa, the smallest of Japan’s five main islands located about 400 miles south of the country’s mainland.
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