The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Explore the current state of global fisheries in 2026 — how overfishing, climate change, and policy gaps are affecting marine ...

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, ...

ABSTRACT: Tripneustes ventricosus and Echinometra lucunter are two species of sea urchins that live in the oceanic waters of Martinique. Both species live in the same habitat and have common food ...

Coral reefs, often called the rainforests of the sea, are among the most biologically diverse and ecologically important ecosystems on Earth. Despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor, they ...

A new analysis reveals that, by 2020, ocean acidification levels had pushed beyond safe planetary boundaries, with the most severe changes occurring in the upper 650 feet of the water column. This ...

The world’s ocean has moved past a chemical safety line that researchers once hoped it would never reach. A new analysis finds that by about 2020, key ocean acidification metrics had already pushed ...

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow water, fed by an underground volcanic system. For scientists, this natural ...

Playa del Carmen, a popular vacation destination on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, faces significant Sargassum strandings during summer months, as do other Caribbean coastlines. To maintain beach access ...

The algae originally come from the Sargasso Sea, located east of Florida. However, since 2011, researchers have repeatedly observed the so-called Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a gigantic carpet of ...