PHOTO: A Squalus mitsukurii (Shortspine spurdog) was documented on the seafloor near an unexplored seamount along the Nazca Ridge, newly discovered about 900 miles off the coast of Chile. (Schmidt ...

Zombie worms have vanished from Pacific whale bones off British Columbia. Scientists link this mystery to low oxygen and warn ...

The Mediterranean Sea is heating up faster than ever before, and the consequences are already being felt. In places like ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals, which have adapted to stable and extreme ...

Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in 2019, shocked the Northern Bering ...

Hampered by climate change, rising temperatures, and beach erosion, endangered sea turtle populations already face an uphill battle. But in the past three years, South Florida environmental non-profit ...

From kelp forests to sea grass meadows, these charismatic predators are quietly holding parts of the coast together.