Polar oceans may play an important role in storing carbon and supporting biodiversity, but current science and policy ...

Five Pacific nations are receiving fresh funding to protect marine ecosystems as rising ocean temperatures threaten ...

The Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP12) to the Nairobi Convention concluded with 15 decisions aimed at accelerating action for the protection, management, and sustainable development of the ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such as a ...

New research led by BRI scientists reveals why local ecological context and community composition are critical to consider ...

Dar es Salaam. Vice President, Deogratius Ndejembi, has outlined six priorities for Tanzania and other Western Indian Ocean countries, that seek to mobilise regional cooperation to protect marine ...

Scientists exploring the Salish Sea for clues about climate change stumbled onto something far stranger: two sea spider ...

An ambitious research programme in northwestern pacific is striving to understand the many facets of the ocean — and the ways ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

From changing ocean currents to extreme weather, scientists are watching a combination of climate signals that could ...

The Changing Ecosystems and Fisheries Initiative is a cross-NOAA effort to safeguard America’s marine and Great Lakes resources, coastal communities, and economies in the face of rapidly changing ...

While the Philippines boasts of having some of the best beaches in the world, a report showed that the health of its marine ecosystem is deteriorating.The country ranked 105 out of 117 territories in ...