Whales are increasingly exposed to traffic – and ship strikes.

Rare predator sighting: Drone footage shows a Hawaiian false killer whale chasing and catching a mahi mahi, offering an uncommon view of this endangered predator’s hunting behaviour. Numbers in ...

Fuel shortages due to the Middle East crisis have delayed by several weeks an annual mission to swap out researchers at South ...

Hundreds descended on a quiet beach for what would likely be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing. Then the realities of a giant ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

There may be fewer than 170 false killer whales in the Hawaiian Archipelago, so every sighting is precious.