The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed ...

SAN DIEGO — A new study from UC Santa Barbara is sounding the alarm on how human activity is accelerating changes in the world’s oceans — and warns that, without intervention, the damage could more ...

Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates the water and plastic ...

Laysan albatrosses (above) and California sea lions (below) are among the marine predator species tracked by the TOPP program. (Photos by Dan Costa, UC Santa Cruz) Humpback whale. (Photo by Bruce Mate ...

Climate Study: Oceans have provided us with food, jobs, travel opportunities, transportation, and resources for thousands of years. They are vast and powerful and help us support human life. However, ...

Large swaths of the Earth’s oceans are being hammered by multiple climate impacts at once, scientists say — a trend that ...

We're losing our fight to control climate change, which has led a lot of scientists to look for new ways to combat the consistently rising global temperatures. While we've come up with a few different ...

Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full impact of greenhouse gas emissions. But this crucial ally has developed ...

Marine scientists have welcomed an unexpected asset to their underwater camera crews: sea lions. By attaching video cameras to sea lions' backs, researchers are not only learning about hyper-valuable ...