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Clean sand and silt will be used to cover a vast deposit of the pesticide DDT and toxic compound PCB on the ocean floor off Southern California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.
With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.
A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean's role in climate change.
The University of Washington has received about $126 million in federal money to build an ocean observatory in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington and Oregon.
The basic makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region has fundamentally changed in the past 40 years because of climate change, commercial fishing pressures and growing coastal populations, according to a new report.
A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.
Environmentalists have long denounced plastic as a long-lasting pollutant that doesn't break down. A new study indicates that, in the oceans, plastic does decompose, but says that's not a good thing either.
New pressures on the nation's oceans, from wind turbines to fish farms, are increasingly sparking conflicts with more traditional activities such as shipping and recreational boating and show the need for better planning, the head of the agency overseeing federal ocean research services said Monday.
A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday — nearly four decades after the poison was banned from use.
The Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday for at least three people missing after two small planes collided in flight off the Southern California coast.
Six Asia-Pacific countries agreed Friday on a wide-ranging plan to protect one of the world's largest networks of coral reefs, promising to reduce pollution, eliminate overfishing and improve the livelihoods of impoverished coastal communities.
The Obama administration took another step toward regulating carbon dioxide, issuing a notice Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency will review whether those emissions should fall under the Clean Water Act.
A husband was charged Tuesday with killing his wife, more than a week after reporting she had disappeared while swimming, authorities said. Her body was found floating off a Florida beach.
It's no secret that U.S. Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Aaron Peirsol has a deep love for the water. That's why the California native has parlayed his interest — and status as a sports figure — into causes to save our planet's oceans. Here, he talks about environmental awareness, education, and his most recent project, Race for the Oceans.
The Volvo Ocean Race started Saturday with eight teams racing into strong wind and choppy seas, each seeking to claim one of sailing's most prestigious prizes.
The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife announced a $15 million gift Thursday to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
A rocket carrying a U.S.-French ocean-monitoring satellite lifted off early Friday from the central California coast.
Picking out the right bass notes deep within the ocean may help predict devastating hurricanes, according to a research project demonstrating the power of acoustics.
This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy.
A landmark law was signed Wednesday that makes Massachusetts the nation's first state to create a single management plan for its vast offshore resources, ranging from wind farms and whale watching to cruise ships and the "sacred cod."
The least understood two-thirds of planet Earth — the oceans — are soon to get needed attention from the Smithsonian Institution. "The oceans are a global system that is essential to all life in Earth, including you," acting Smithsonian Secretary Cristian Samper said Thursday at the construction site that will become Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop pristine, might be the lament of today's Ancient Mariner. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet, and every single spot has been affected by people in some way.
The promotional materials for "Endless Ocean" claim that this newest title for the Wii is "more of an experience than a game." And while that may sound like the kind of puffy sloganeering dreamed up in some marketing meeting, it's actually pretty accurate.
The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by enviromental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals.
Undersea explorer Robert Ballard leans back and smiles at the screens arrayed above his desk. One displays a view of a remote operating vessel, another scans along a seafloor never before viewed by humans.
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thoughtThe scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 billion-year-old ocean floor rocks.
Lost in the WavesSwept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old son struggle to stay alive miles from shore. As night falls, with no rescue imminent, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they'll drown together.
World's Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family TreeFive years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known.
First film of a 'giant' stingrayIt is one of the rarest giants of the ocean, and it has been caught on film for the first time. An underwater camera crew filming for the BBC recorded a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique.
US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow SeaWashington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles
Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven YearsNorth and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - A PrimerIn recent months, media outlets and some celebrities have turned the spotlight on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Laser microscope aims to uncover alien life MICROSCOPES revolutionised the study of life on Earth. Now a rugged, easy-to-use instrument is aiming to be equally influential in the search for alien life in locations such as the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
If you were a fish living in the warm turquoise waters off the coast of Bonaire, you may not hear those words, but you'd see the shrimp sign language equivalent.
Field Notes: Stalking Fish in the Name of ScienceThe number of fish in the sea, long a metaphor for limitless possibility, is finally coming to a head count.
SOS: Is Climate Change Suffocating Our Seas?Yet another ecological scourge may earn a place on the ever-lengthening list of problems potentially caused by climate change: the formation of some so-called "dead zones"—huge expanses of ocean that lose virtually all of their marine life at depth during the summer. Possible …
Pacific Ocean 'dead zone' in Northwest may be irreversibleAn oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey is starving sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington and will probably appear there each summer as a result of climate change, an Oregon State University researcher said Thursday. The huge area is one of 400 dead zones …
18th Century Ships' Logs Predict Future Weather ForecastResearch team leader Dr Dennis Wheeler of the University of Sunderland comments: "The observations from the logbooks on wind force and weather are astonishingly good and often better than modern logbooks.
Acidic Clouds Nourish World's OceansScientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.
Ancient And Bizarre Fish DiscoveredAcademy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ancient and bizarre group of fishes distantly related to sharks, from the coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.
Obama administration releases ocean policy task force interim reportOBAMA Administration officials released the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Report for a 30-day public review and comment period at the end of last week. The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, led by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, …
ENVIRONMENT: Don't kill the oceans ENVIRONMENT: Don't kill the oceans —Alex David Rogers
Live Turtle Webcam in the Lower Florida KeysLoggerhead turtles hatch last night with the help of volunteers leading them to the ocean in Big Pine Key, Florida. Some nests were late in hatching, raising concerns among some folks. But the turtles came thru!
Vacationing girl's message in bottle follows her home - CNN.comWhat an experience for these kids! Only a few miles from her home! Even tho the ocean currents can readily carry items so far, to have this happen must be a thrill they'll share for a long time!
World's first offshore wind turbine is floatingStatoil has constructed the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine a couple of hours by catamaran from the oil town Stavanger, in the hope that one day vast wind farms could be constructed far offshore in water depths of up to 700m.
NASA: More water below the ocean floor than in all the oceans combined"In fact, we don't really know how much water there is on Earth," said Gary Egbert, also a professor of oceanography at OSU and co-author on the study.
Small Fluctuations In Solar Activity, Large Influence On ClimateScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2009) — Subtle connections between the 11-year solar cycle, the stratosphere, and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe, according to research appearing this week in the journal Science.
Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All -- And FastThough ocean-borne plastic trash has a reputation as an indestructible, immortal environmental villain, scientists announced yesterday that some plastics actually decompose rapidly in the ocean. And, the researchers say, that's not a good thing.
Taking a break to post this brief article on the VINE while otherwise working on a few book and workshop ideas.
Acidity latest threat to Alaska watersErosion threatens to topple coastal Alaskan villages. Melting ice threatens polar bears.
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