A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved. The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two decades of negotiations, then ratification by more than ...

(CN) — More than 80 countries — though not the United States, Canada, Russia and others — are now bound by a new global treaty to protect marine biodiversity in the vast ocean stretches beyond ...

On February 3, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. On March 19, 2025, the Office of Naval Reserach ...

A coral reef at the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Roughly 2 million species live in the world's oceans. But scientists ...

The Oceans Sciences DEI and Anti-Racism fund aims to promote diversity in the ocean sciences. “You’re a natural!” When a professor said this during an undergraduate geology field trip, Christina ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: where is marine life found, and why? A new study published in Communications ...

Ocean projects and governance systems abound globally— everything from offshore energy to coastal aquaculture and fishing treaties — yet there is no standardized way to measure how equitable they are.

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, ...