The Texas Sea Life Center opened a new wildlife hospital after two years of work, expanding its ability to treat injured sea ...

A new study points to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion as the leading cause ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the ...

The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells—phytoplankton—drifting in the surface of the ...

We have made many changes intended to help prevent an event like this from ever happening again,” a BP spokesperson said.

Submerged ancient forest floors off Mozambique now shelter young reef fish, suggesting overlooked peat reefs could offer some ...

This video shows a submerged airplane resting on the ocean floor, surrounded by deep blue water and scattered marine life.

In 1972, an ambitious project off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, attempted to create an artificial reef by dumping approximately two million discarded tires into the Atlantic Ocean. Organizers believed the ...

Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent, ...

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago, providing evidence that ancient ...