Hurricane Florence reshaped the shoreline near Beaufort, North Carolina.

The 600-meter-long structure will tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a huge buildup of trash floating between California and Hawaii—but not everyone thinks it will work.

Scientists who designed a marine robot to survey ocean life were inspired by eel larvae.

An analysis of 15 types of stressors finds humans are heavily affecting most sea areas.

With samples taken from the crust of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, researchers have discovered where some of the oceans’ dissolved organic carbon winds up.

The Challenger expedition's data on ocean temperatures and currents, seawater chemistry, life in the deep sea, and the geology of the seafloor spurred the rise of modern oceanography.

As the only woman who has piloted the deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, Van Dover is among the few researchers to have explored hydrothermal vents firsthand.

Researchers devise more-realistic means of forecasting the effects of climate change on complex marine ecosystems.

How one research team studies the effects of ocean conditions on marine life