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Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse, according to a new study: extreme heat, acidification, and deoxygenation.

You Might Cry When You Read This Study About What’s Happening to the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap pollution — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.

Scientists Propose Hacking Viruses to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.

Science & Energy

Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

By Frank Landymore

At nearly 70 degrees, the ocean has hit its highest recorded temperature in history — and scientists say it's only likely to continue to rise.

Ocean Hits Highest Recorded Temperature, Still Rising

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study that tracked the ocean surface over two decades found that it's slowly getting greener, likely due to climate change.

Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That the Ocean Is Changing Color

By Frank Landymore

Over less than 20 years, humans extracted so much groundwater that it changed the tilt of the entire planet.

Science & Energy

We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok has become a major hub for conspiracy theorists who claim that the Titanic never sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Conspiracy Lunatics Think the Titanic Never Actually Sank

By Sharon Adarlo

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

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Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

By Sharon Adarlo

Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

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Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

By Frank Landymore

The core-mantle boundary is dotted with Everest-dwarfing "mountains" made of ocean floors that were dragged to the interior over millions of years.

Science & Energy

The Earth’s Core Is Wrapped in the Floor of an Ancient Ocean, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.

Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

By Frank Landymore

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria.

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scientific voyage aboard a CSIRO research vessel has yielded an untold treasure trove of shark teeth, and a species of living shark yet to be named.

Science & Energy

Scientists Stumble Upon Huge Graveyard of Sharks, Deep Under Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Scientist suggest seeding the planet's oceans with more phytoplankton, organisms that are already responsible for producing 50 percent of the oxygen.

Scientists May Be Able to Fight Global Warming by Supercharging Plankton

By Victor Tangermann

A container ship encountered rough seas in Canadian waters on Friday, dropping several containers of "spontaneous combustibles."

Science & Energy

Shipping Containers of “Spontaneous Combustibles” Fall Overboard

By Jon Christian

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

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Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

By Dan Robitzski

In a grim development, Indonesian officials say they've found debris from its Navy's missing submarine -- and its crew are now presumed dead.

Robots and Machines

Debris Found From Missing Submarine, All Crew Presumed Dead

By Jon Christian

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.

Science & Energy

A NASA Scientist Heralds “One of the Most Profound Discoveries” of the Space Age

By Dan Robitzski

San Francisco-based engineering company Edge Innovations has designed and built a robot dolphin that looks and acts just like the real thing.

Robots and Machines

Ultra-Realistic Remote Controlled Dolphin Looks Like the Real Thing

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new feature in the LA Times, a startup called Shiok Meats may be poised to be the first company in the world to sell a lab-grown meat.

Science & Energy

This May Be the First Lab-Grown Meat to Actually Hit the Market

By Jon Christian

A new study predicts that climate change will kill so many oceanic organisms this decade that the entire ecosystem could fall apart.

New Study Predicts the Ocean Ecosystem Will Collapse This Decade

By Dan Robitzski

An updated NASA animation reveals what the world would look like if all of Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes slowly vanished.

Science & Energy

Amazing Vid Shows How Earth Would Look If All Its Oceans Dried Up

By Dan Robitzski

Elizabeth Warren just announced a package of environmental protection policies focused on the ocean that she's calling the Blue New Deal.

Elizabeth Warren Announces Ocean-Protecting “Blue New Deal”

By Dan Robitzski

A new study in the journal Science has found that climate change is warming oceans far faster than experts had previously predicted.

Scientists: Warming Oceans Will Lead to “Catastrophic” Future

By Jon Christian

A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine Microbes

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A Fleet of Underwater Robots Will Create Detailed Map of Marine Microbes

By Claudia Geib

Jellyfish Chips Are the Future of Junk Food

Jellyfish Chips Are the Future of Junk Food

By Lou Del Bello

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Record Global Temperatures Drive Extreme Heatwaves in Oceans, Too

By Lou Del Bello

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United Nations’ Treaty Protecting High Seas May Be a Reality in 2020

By Lou Del Bello

UN Asserts That We Have Entered a “Planetary Crisis”

UN Asserts That We Have Entered a “Planetary Crisis”

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Climate Change Could Cause Conditions That Literally Dissolve Sea Creatures

By Kristin Houser

We’re Undergoing a Mass Extinction, and the Largest Marine Animals Will Be the First to Go

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We’re Undergoing a Mass Extinction, and the Largest Marine Animals Will Be the First to Go

By Science Alert

O Canada!—The Great White North Joins Mission to Map the Great Unknown

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O Canada!—The Great White North Joins Mission to Map the Great Unknown

By Jelor Gallego

This Device Could Power One-Third Of The U.S. Using Ocean Waves

This Device Could Power One-Third Of The U.S. Using Ocean Waves

By Kathleen Riley

Stunning Video of Never Before Seen Marine Life

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Stunning Video of Never Before Seen Marine Life

By Jolene Creighton