Ocean

A research expedition to a huge underwater canyon off the coast of Ireland has shed light on a hidden process that sucks carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.

Scientists have a plan to study the fastest creature in the world — and hope to use what they learn to build tiny robots.

And even those patches of pristine ocean are unprotected.

A new paper argues that the apparent "pause" in climate change of the last decade might have resulted from a hidden global heat sink.

It's a totally tubular invasion.

Alien, or anime character? Neither! It's Genie's dogfish — a new shark species named for the famous marine biologist, Eugenie Clark.

A region in the Arctic Ocean is undergoing a historic identity crisis.

With #ShrunkenCupOff, ocean scientists were crushing it on Twitter.

Will hurricane season in 2018 be as intense as last year's?

A recent decline in the strength of a climate-regulating ocean current could spell trouble for weather patterns in the future.

Welcome to the actual middle of nowhere — home of the world's largest spaceship cemetery.

Oxygen is draining from the oceans, and oxygen-depleted "dead zones" are on the rise.

I'm in love with the cocco (lithophores).

A new species of fish redefines what it means to go deep.

Remarkably diverse communities of ocean life make their home in waters near Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands, now a protected marine reserve.

Mexico President Nieto designated a Pacific Ocean region teeming with biodiversity as a protected marine area.

Climate change may be leading to shifts in the communities of sea life beneath an Antarctic ice shelf.

As the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Wild unleash a week of dueling shark programs, a biologist advises viewers to take what they see with a large grain of sea salt.