On Sable Island, a thin crescent-shaped sandbar in the Atlantic Ocean, the shifting landscapes make for dazzling – and ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

The SS United States had a distinguished career as a transatlantic steamship. Now, officials in Florida plan to turn it into the world’s largest artificial diving reef.

California water agencies are working with a company on a new desalination technology, testing a system that eventually could ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Warning signs about shifts in key food sources for fish are beginning to be observed in marine ecosystems worldwide.

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this ...

Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...