A new international review has shed light on how offshore energy structures—from oil and gas platforms to wind turbines—shape marine ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society. The paper, ...

S. Korea is accelerating efforts to use tidal flats, seaweed as carbon sinks as the country looks beyond forests for ways to ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who have already used the vast troves of geolocation data from vessel-tracking systems to pinpoint where whales and other large marine animals ...

Offshore wind farms can create their own local climates and may alter currents. How does that affect marine life around them? By Becki Robins / Undark Published Aug 24, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article ...

Nature protection, conservation and restoration is “not a trivial matter but key to human survival,” according to scientists quoted in a 2005 UN report. To demonstrate this, they developed the concept ...

New Zealand’s earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine protected areas, typically focused on shallow ecosystems, largely because that is ...

Consultant for the Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Project, Richard Adade, has underscored the need for the country to adopt effective marine spatial planning to manage competing activities along the co ...

Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction -- even those living in almost pristine marine habitats and diverse coastal regions -- reports a new ...

This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. Summer afternoons on Florida Bay are a wonder. The sky, bright blue and dotted ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...