The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime ...

Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and into meat and ...

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

A major agreement to protect marine diversity in the high seas was struck Friday when Morocco became the 60th nation to sign ...

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries." ...

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of ...

The approval of a high seas treaty means new protections will be possible for international waters for the first time ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...