Oceanographers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa discovered that microbial communities—from the sunlit surface to ...

A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved. The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two decades of negotiations, then ratification by more than ...

As world leaders meet at the COP30 summit in Brazil, the urgent need to hit a global target of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 has been brought into stark focus by an international ...

UN experts welcomed on Thursday the ratification of the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), first adopted in June 2023. This ratification is a significant advance ...

(CN) — More than 80 countries — though not the United States, Canada, Russia and others — are now bound by a new global treaty to protect marine biodiversity in the vast ocean stretches beyond ...

WWF outlines how ocean industries can help reverse biodiversity loss and build a resilient blue economy through collective, ...

On February 3, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. On March 19, 2025, the Office of Naval Reserach ...

A new study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, provides a profound look at life up to nearly 10 kilometers below the ocean's surface in the Japan, Ryukyu, and Izu-Ogasawara trenches. The ...

The Oceans Sciences DEI and Anti-Racism fund aims to promote diversity in the ocean sciences. “You’re a natural!” When a professor said this during an undergraduate geology field trip, Christina ...