Scientists are pretty good at recognizing marine heat waves: A global network of thousands of oceanic buoys and orbiting satellites allow them to see, in real time, ocean surface temperatures, ...

Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a ...

A new analysis of century-old coral skeletons shows that ocean acidity along the Pacific coast has risen far faster than ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a new study has ...

Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean ...

From seabirds to sea lions, wildlife along the California coast are now facing “the Blob,” a massive marine heat wave that’s become a recurring anomaly since the early 2010s. The oceanic phenomenon ...

The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...