Where others might have pulled their small child away from the tumbling whitewater, her mother instead recognized her ...

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 ...

Holidays like Halloween and Labor Day are major events around this time of year, but there's another to be on the look out for. After several months, Georgians' clocks will need to change in the ...

James was discovered as a teen by talent scout Johnny Otis. Her career took off in the '60s with hits like "All I Could Do Was Cry" and "At Last." She died in 2012. Originally broadcast in 1994. This ...

A researcher’s surprising journey from early life in the Taklamakan Desert to scientific discoveries at the bottom of the sea.

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

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under the salty ocean. They hope it could help tackle an increasingly severe ...

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

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'. The tortuous system of deep craters and dolomite walls blows the Atlantic Ocean's ...

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