Ocean currents are critical to life on Earth. These continuous flows of seawater both regulate the global climate and propel nutrients and organisms across the oceans. On the surface, ocean currents ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth's surface, yet remarkably, we’ve explored only about 5% of it. Despite this mystery, what we do know reveals just how vital — and ...

"Field Museum Associate Curator of Zoology and specialist in cephalopod mollusks, Janet Voight, has partnered with Peggy Macnamara, Artist-in-Residence at the Museum, to provide readers with an ...