Former NOAA administrator and environmental scientist Jane Lunchenco discusses the importance of science in the face of climate change.
Scientists bring marine plankton back to life to study past climate change.
Irish researchers convert seals into remote oceanographic sensors by attaching tags containing temperature probes and other technologies to their heads.
Data collected by elephant seals in Antarctic waters provide a closer look at the processes driving ocean circulation.
See the volunteers and veterinarians who are helping to rehabilitate wayward penguins that wash up on the coast of Brazil.
Researchers are struggling to understand shifts in the migratory patterns of penguins in the Southwest Atlantic.
In his bathysphere, William Beebe plumbed the ocean to record-setting depths.
See how William Beebe and Otis Barton descended to the ocean's depths in an early submersible designed to allow access to the mysterious lifeforms inhabiting the deep sea.
Massive die-offs of just about every marine species millions of years ago are thought to have resulted from a surge of carbon dioxide.
Investigators say human error caused a Taiwanese research vessel to drift off course and sink last year, claiming the lives of two aboard.
Celeste Kidd and Steven Piantadosi had sued the university over its handling of sexual harassment allegations made against colleague Florian Jaeger.
Todd Heatherton had groped students, according to allegations, and was facing termination.
Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges that allege the company’s promise to revolutionize blood testing swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and put patients in danger.
The primate was famous for her ability to communicate with humans.
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