Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between ...

The ocean feels infinite. If you were to start swimming from shore, it’s easy to believe—fitness and oxygen aside—you could ...

Seabirds are among the most threatened bird groups in the world, with nearly one-third at risk of extinction. In a new study, ...

The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces won the battle against Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.

The world’s aquaculture industry is booming. And it’s no wonder—overfishing in the open ocean has caused populations of many commercially caught fish to plummet. To keep up with the world’s growing ...

The past decade has not been kind to North Atlantic right whales—or to the fishers who ply the waters where these massive mammals dwell. For the whales that migrate along the North American east coast ...

Off the coast of northern Japan, the Kangei Maru, a state-of-the-art whaling ship, hauled aboard a behemoth catch: a 56-tonne fin whale. The male whale, caught in early August 2024, was the first of ...

Now that it’s spread rapidly around the globe and jumped to animals such as foxes, sea lions, and cows, scientists worry that the avian flu could spill over to humans.

For more than a month, a global audience waited anxiously as rescuers fought against time to save a young killer whale trapped in a tidal lagoon off northwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.