The world’s oceans are on the edge of a mysterious and dangerous tipping point. A new report reveals that rising acidity ...

But population alone doesn’t affect marine life. “A lot of the ocean is getting ... Some seas have seen reduced human impact—in parts of the North Atlantic, for example, where there are ...

Humans have a variety of impacts on marine mammals and, conversely ... I’m interested in how biology, life history and specifically reproductive biology can give us insights into the levels of impact ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

It substantially regulates the Earth’s temperature, and it has been mitigating the recent spike in atmospheric temperatures, soaking up much of human ... impact on marine life – in effect ...

Many scientists believe that these activities also negatively impact marine life. But by far the greatest human contributor to ocean noise is commercial shipping traffic. Since the mid-1960s ...

As a result of modern lifestyles, with UV filters vital for human health and extending the ... understanding how these chemicals can affect marine life.What's particularly concerning is that ...

Marine animals use sound to navigate, communicate, find food, locate mates, and avoid predators. Flooding their world with intense sound interferes with these activities and results in serious — ...

The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic ...

An "unprecedented" toxic algae bloom has overrun the coast of Southern California, sickening marine animals and staining the ...

Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater ...