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In 1958, about 440 humpback whales were left in the western South Atlantic. Today there are 25,000. Forty years after...
Dip your face in cold water and, without deciding to, your body flips into seal mode — slowing your heart,...
It's smaller than your fingernail, it drifts in every ocean on Earth, and when death comes for it, it simply...
23 North Atlantic right whale calves were born this season, the highest count in 17 years. Small population, big number,...
A voluntary safety recall is underway for select Apeks XL4, XL4+, and Ocea regulator second stages, over a defect that...
A jellyfish the size of a school bus. A whale skeleton feeding an entire ecosystem. 28 possible new species. All...
After more than 15 years of advocacy, Ghana has designated a 703 km² marine protected area at Greater Cape Three...
Magdalena Solich-Talanda broke the Dynamic Bi-Fins world record on the opening day of the World Apnea 2026 Pool Championships in...
An international team aboard a Schmidt Ocean Institute research vessel used lab-grade microscopes and onboard gene sequencing to confirm 31...
Once a year, the Great Barrier Reef spawns, and almost none of it survives in the wild. Here's how one...
A submersible exploring a remote Indian Ocean trench found something nobody expected: a whale graveyard that's been quietly filling up...
PADI Women's Dive Day returns on 18 July 2026, now paired with a citizen science push for shark and ray...
Ten hectares of seagrass meadow, tens of thousands of hand-raised seedlings, and a native oyster population that hasn't defined these...
On the floor of Puget Sound, a bull kelp forest that vanished decades ago has done something restoration teams rarely...
Marine protected areas now cover just over 10% of the planet's oceans, a target the world first promised to hit...
A mysterious algal bloom off South Australia has killed marine life across 20,000 square kilometres of coastline since March 2025....
A new industry-wide initiative launched this June is asking divers to treat rescue-readiness as an ongoing practice rather than a...
Using two decades of fluke photographs and a bit of citizen-science detective work, researchers just confirmed something no one had...
Three years after a historic marine heatwave scorched the Florida Keys reef tract, restoration crews have quietly returned almost 16,000...
Dwarf minke whale season is underway on the Great Barrier Reef's far-northern Ribbon Reefs this June and July, and more...
Less than a year after committing to a network of eight marine protected areas, the island nation of São Tomé...
Every previous glimpse of a live goblin shark came from an animal accidentally hauled up on a fishing line. Now...
Researchers studying a small sea anemone found a protein that looks almost identical to a key human antiviral gene —...
Off Key West, treasure hunters pulled a 22.5-pound silver bar from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha —...
President Moetai Brotherson announced a new fully protected zone around the Austral, Marquesas and Western Society Islands, pushing French Polynesia's...
A 13-year DNA study of a small, isolated beluga population in Alaska's Bristol Bay found something unexpected in their family...
A three-year satellite-tagging study in Papua New Guinea's Samarai Islands found that reef manta rays respond to monsoon season not...
A Dartmouth study set California two-spot octopuses in front of mirrors and asked them to find food they couldn't see...
