NASA's plan to deorbit the International Space Station in coming years has stirred up a wave of reaction by a leading ocean ...

As humans deplete its water source and climate change accelerates, the Dead Sea is drying up, leaving salt formations and sinkholes in its wake.

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A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

A beautiful fish gone in the blink of an eye … just terrible. Whether you’ve experienced it in real life or seen it in a ...

After spending the winter recovering, a group of rehabilitated sea turtles recently experienced a happy home-going as they ...

Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest "whale graveyard" in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems ...

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, ...

They've roamed the oceans for more than 100 million years and can dive nearly 4,000 feet deep — and yet sea turtles are still ...