Coastal Restoration

Russian investigators said Saturday they were looking into “a possible ecological catastrophe” in the eastern Kamchatka region.

The location of the Mauritian oil spill means the environmental consequences could be long-lasting.

The waters off California's coast are acidifying twice as fast as the global average, according to a new federal study.

The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles in the Indian Ocean. It's a good place to measure debris because almost no one lives there. Scientists were flabbergasted by what they found.

Los Angeles • A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs.

Advancements in satellite remote sensing techniques are paving the way toward the development of high resolution and temporal maps of marine microplastic distribution.

"Losing an island overnight is an eye-opener," one federal scientist said. "It really makes climate change real.”

Every night, a great migration takes place. It's bigger than any you've probably heard of—and even more surprising is that it's vertical.

The National Weather Service announced Wednesday that Hurricane Lane had weakened to a Category 4 hurricane, but the storm could still cause catastrophic damage.

It's still terrifying.

China claims they aren't military bases, but its actions say otherwise.

A Japanese ship that ran aground on a reef off Mauritius two weeks ago has now stopped leaking oil into the Indian Ocean but the island nation must still prepare for "a worst case scenario", Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said late on Monday.

The Marshall Islands' capital city is flooded by storm waves, dengue fever and flu are rampant, and its president pleads for help from the global community.

To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under the ocean. The New York Times mapped current and future cables, with a focus on the ones owned by Amazon, Facebook, Googl…

New Zealand’s whale whisperers worry that manmade changes in the ocean are behind the spike in beachings

Life on the coast of Madagascar is increasingly precarious. In recent decades, the overexploitation of marine life has made it difficult for hundreds of thousands of small-scale fishers to make a living. So it’s no surprise that they are vocally opposing a new agreement to bring hundreds of additional Chinese vessels into their waters. Two […]

The Indonesian drifted thousands of kilometres, until he was finally rescued by a passing ship near Guam.

William F. Liebenow, who was buried Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, never liked to brag about rescuing John F. Kennedy when the future president and his PT-109 crew were stranded on a Pacific Island.

On September 8, a group called The Ocean Cleanup plans to deploy a plastic cleanup system into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Several experts argue that the cleanup system won't work and could do more harm than good.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam's Mekong Delta were evacuated as the region braced for the arrival of Typhoon Tembin after the storm left more than 160 people dead in the Philippines.

The bodies of seven missing U.S. sailors have been found aboard the Navy destroyer Fitzgerald after it collided with a merchant ship off Japan.