Seagrass meadows are critical coastal habitats that support biodiversity, and play a significant role in carbon sequestration ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius. Given a cloud over the Quad and our Indo-Pacific stakes, we must hedge ...

The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.

“Currently, there is no standardized seagrass map for the [Western Indian Ocean] region, and the ecosystem is not widely included in management or policy,” Stacy Baez, a senior officer with ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems.

A map showing the new search area ... MH370 have been found when they washed ashore on islands in the western Indian Ocean. Despite prior searches being unsuccessful in locating the flight's ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.