Oceans

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered a new hydrothermal vent field in the Galapagos Islands, larger than a professional soccer field.

Boogie boarders caught some waves in bioluminescence at Huntington Beach, Calif., on Sept. 5.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

It’s not yet the height of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and surface temperatures have already shattered records.

With water temperatures at an all-time high, scientists are getting worried about the long-term effects ‘bleaching’ is having on South Florida’s coral reefs.

Dr. Stephen Leatherman, aka ‘Dr. Beach,’ explained that it depends what you’re looking for in a beach. 

Waters off the southern coast of the Florida reached never-before-seen temperatures in 2023, the NOAA reported.

The differences between the west and east coast Floridian beaches.

The world’s oceans are much warmer than normal this summer with 40% of the oceans currently experiencing a marine heat wave according to NOAA.

Rip currents were responsible for at least a dozen deaths at Florida beaches in June 2023 alone. NBC6 Meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin has more on how to survive one.

A string of incidents since 2020 prompted one scientist to say the attacks may indicate that the whales are intending to cause damage to sailing vessels. Others are more skeptical.

Two adult gray whales fended off more than 30 orcas in a six-hour attack off the coast of California.

For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, concluding two weeks of talks in New York.

Self-driving innovation is thousands of feet below the ocean surface, with Boeing and other defense contractors building unmanned subs for the military.

Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.

U.S. government scientists calculate that levels of the potent heat-trapping gas methane rose at a record pace last year.