Carrying four Earth-observation instruments on board, a satellite lifted off on Tuesday on its mission to bring us a more…

A leatherback turtle swimming gracefully through the open ocean is arguably one of the most majestic sights in the natural…

Are you looking to be enveloped in a flying vortex of Mantas? Get ready, it doesn't happen often. Have you ever…

Follow us on a real tour of the biggest Mexican peninsula, Baja California Sur, and its satellite islands. During the past…

Raja Ampat, best known for its diversity of marine life, can best be described as a coral reef on steroids:…

Guadalupe Island is a very special place to me, of course we all know the place for its large population…

Researchers tag fish with satellite trackers After an absence of more than 50 years, the endangered bluefin tuna has returned…

Surprisingly precise historical charts show important ecological information Centuries-old sea nautical charts created by seafarers to avoid collisions with shipwrecks…

During the last glacial period, the ice in the Antarctic was thicker and extended farther offshore than it does today.…

Manatee population to slowly grow and shift northward Florida's manatee population is likely to endure for the next century, provided…

A few weeks ago I was leading a micro-group of passionate divers and UW photographers to Bimini Island, a lovely sandy…

In early 2014, when a large-scale heat wave in the Pacific Ocean produced temperature anomalies greater than anything seen since…

Research will lead to better predictions about rising sea levelsThe fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever recorded have been…

Every year, over the months of June/July, we spend 40 days on South Africa's "Wild Coast" waiting for the mass…

In September 2016, the surface of the Arctic sea ice shrank to nearly 4.1 million square kilometres – the second…

The first DAN Academy of Dive Medicine in Columbia was recently held at the Navy Base A.R.C. Bolivia in Cartagena…

Finning, bycatch in commercial fishing, over fishing, sport fishing, contamination, pollution and targeted killing let the shark populations rapidly sink…

Asia to get warmer and stormier Global warming is causing a change in some ocean currents. Scientists have shown that…

At the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), sea ice physicists have predicted that the…

The Great Barrier Reef is currently experiencing coral bleaching on an unprecedented scale, and scientists have voiced much concern about…

Researchers, including one from the Technical University of Denmark, have proven for the first time that eels from the Mediterranean…

Measurements taken by satellites indicate that the eastern flank of Mount Etna is slowly sliding into the Ionian Sea. However,…

Using the latest 3-D camera technology, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is investigating a hydrothermal vent…

In January and February 2013, a subsurface anticyclonic eddy formed in the Peru-Chile Undercurrent, allowing researchers to document the creation…

Researchers have named the Melosira arctica, one of the major algae species in the Arctic Ocean, as Algae of the…

With a newly developed netting gear, marine scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute managed to catch a large number of…

Rising sea temperatures are threatening marine ecosystems worldwide, and this has a major impact on our climate, weather, fish stocks…

In a recent study, scientists have shown that plankton promoted cloud formation over the oceans. Using satellite measurements and computer…