Along the Pacific, the ocean is no longer a distant backdrop but an active, punishing force that is pushing into streets, battering seawalls, and erasing beaches. Record‑breaking tides and surf have ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers project that human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, with warming seas and fisheries collapse leading the charge. The tropics and poles face the fastest changes, and ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it.

Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

California sea otters maintain a warm body temperature in cold waters, which increases their energy demands to about three ...

In a milestone for ocean governance and conservation, the High Seas Treaty has cleared the final hurdle to become international law, which for the first time provides a legal pathway towards ...

Before 2013, divers on North America’s west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast’s iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...