The third U.N. Ocean Conference, or UNOC, began in Nice, France, earlier today, with France and Costa Rica serving as co-hosts of the gathering aimed at protecting the world's oceans. Atop the ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

The Pacific Ocean is home to some of the deepest points on the planet. In fact, four of the top six deepest spots in the world can be found in the Pacific. The Pacific’s basin is uniquely low, which ...

Oceans help sustain life on Earth, but the tipping point is near, experts said. Oceans do so much to sustain life on Earth, including bearing the brunt of global temperatures that have been steadily ...

The oceans of the world absorb the overwhelming majority of the heat caused by global warming, creating serious consequences for life in and around them, including humans. "The oceans do a lot of the ...

Without the world’s oceans, Earth would just be another rock hurtling through space. As surfers we’ve figured out how to have a hell of a lot of fun in the water, but of course, there’s much more to ...

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that ...

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools. The study, ...

First Place Winner, Wonder: What Sustains Us category, Mo'orea, French Polynesia. Bearing the theme “Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us,” the winning images of the 2025 12th annual United Nations ...

Without the world’s oceans, Earth would just be another rock hurtling through space. As surfers we’ve figured out how to have a hell of a lot of fun in the water, but of course, there’s much more to ...

The Nancy Foster, a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship, travels over Gray’s Reef, about 20 miles off the coast of Georgia, Aug. 7, 2019 (AP Photo by Robert F. Bukaty). While the ...