The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...

Reflecting the growing demand for technological solutions in ocean governance, the report highlights a significant surge in the use of Global Fishing Watch’s tools with 11,000 new registered map users ...

NASA data shows global sea levels are rising faster than expected. Most of the rise in 2024 came from ocean warming, not ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

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

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.

Earth's largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of South Georgia Island, a common rendezvous spot for big bergs, new ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties. As ...

The ECCO project includes hundreds of millions of real-world measurements of temperature, salinity, sea ice concentration, pressure, water ... of the ocean—or they can narrow the view to the ...

Officials are telling swimmers to think twice before jumping into the ocean water in Los Angeles County. The warnings, which serve as cautions rather than orders, come after debris from the ...

High bacteria levels have prompted the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to issue ocean water use warnings for multiple county beaches. Officials are encouraging beachgoers to avoid ...