The new film “Ocean With David Attenborough” is both a breathtaking celebration of marine life and a sobering exposé of the ...

Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead ... gobble the abundant phytoplankton, and then small fish consume the zooplankton. The rapid increase in algae produces ...

an ocean scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity. With models and surveys in hand, the team saw that areas that were fished lost nearly half their fish-driven recycling. While fishing ...

But on this day, McGuire and entrepreneur David Lang, both National Geographic Explorers ... and purple urchins littered the rocky ocean floor, and fish of all shapes and sizes darted among ...

Even among those that make it to the ocean, as few as one in ten thousand ... in oil spill recovery funds allocated by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. At no cost to property owners ...

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a diver's outfit. A herd of saddled sea bream fish swim closely by a ...

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most⁠ people are: When he was a child, he enjoyed looking at the magazines ...

The National Academies of Sciences ... on the United States contributions to global ocean plastic waste. 1. Evaluate United States contributions to global ocean plastic waste, including types, sources ...

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively ...