A thousand miles south of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a series of tiny islands form an atoll, called Palmyra. Palmyra Atoll is part of four protected U.S. marine monuments, forming the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor of ...

Discover how rising seas, coral bleaching, and community-led conservation are shaping the future of the Southwest Pacific.

Think about placing an advanced video recorder at the bottom of a completely dark and ice-cold ocean, assuming that the footage would contain absolutely nothing but space and mud. That is precisely ...

Scientists have discovered the deepest known animal ecosystem on Earth, thriving almost 10 kilometres beneath the Pacific Ocean where sunlight never reaches. At depths of up to 9,533 metres, ...

Marine rewilding could help restore ocean biodiversity, strengthen food webs and improve ecosystem resilience to climate ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean. However, a new study led by oceanographers at the University of Hawaii'i ...

For most marine ecosystems, there is no historical survey telling us what a truly intact shark population looked like. And if ...

El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are measured above normal, for at least five consecutive ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...