When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

In a sea teeming with some of the largest creatures on the planet, a University of Miami scientist is studying how big of an ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Urban ash from the California wildfires that has settled across the state has now been found more than 100 miles offshore.

The debris and pollution from the recent L.A. fires will eventually make their way to the ocean — and scientists will be ...

There is a critical link between reduced river flow into the Mediterranean and the health of the Mediterranean marine ...

In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just ...

First Solar pledges to keep supply chains free from seabed minerals, aligning with a global moratorium on deep sea mining to safeguard marine ecosystems.

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic’s melting ice, which holds ...