Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

The Pacific Ocean has shaped human history for centuries, serving as a highway for explorers, trade, and war. From Polynesian navigators crossing vast distances to European colonization and World War ...

Paleontologists in Peru have uncovered a remarkable 9-million-year-old fossil, which belonged to an ancestor of the great ...

636. The second ocean steam vessel was the steam brig New York, built at the foot of Newcastle Street, Norfolk, Va., in 1821, by William F. Hunter, ship joiner. She was of 281 tons burden and 50 ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...