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 ...

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 ...

A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around the globe indicates that ...

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 ...

Human-made chemicals are quietly building up in the ocean, with traces found from coastlines to remote coral reefs.

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, ...

Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates the water and plastic pellets still wash ashore. Meanwhile, cleanup efforts continue, fishing ...

Like his father before him, Britain's Prince William is continuing the fight to save the planet. The founder of the environmentally focused Earshot Prize took up the work that King Charles III ...

Rising global temperatures are reducing Arctic Ocean sea ice, and new research has explored the connection between that melting ice and changing water circulation patterns that can impact weather ...

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 ...