Challenger Deep expedition brought back samples from Mariana Trench

Despite recently publishing extensive research on how humans and environmental change are impacting the seafloor, a UK research group says more work is needed to help safeguard these complex ecosystems 

Extensive loss of branching corals and changes in coral community structure in Australia's Palm Islands region over the past century has been revealed in a new study.

The findings of what the researchers call the "most realistic ocean warming experiment to date" show that the effects of future warming may far exceed expectations

A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia provides a deeper explanation of why fish are expected to decline in size

FAU's Harbor branch leads research mission

More than five trillion pieces of plastic debris are estimated to be in our oceans, though many are impossible to see with the naked eye

Researchers show how corals create rock-hard skeletons

Mapping deep reefs produces valuable data for researchers, conservationists

“A lot of the powerful environmental events that happen in the oceans occur when we’re not there,” says Deborah Kelley, director of the OOI Cabled Array