While many countries have agreed to take steps to protect the vast, ungoverned swathes of the world's oceans, they have yet ...

Dozens of research and exploration vessels have set sail off the French coastal city of Nice across across the Baie des Anges ...

After 19 years of negotiations, a historic agreement has been reached to protect the world's oceans and ensure all the world's people can benefit from the high seas while also protecting marine life.

In addition, oceans are much deeper, with an average depth of about 12,000 feet while the Mediterranean Sea, one of the world’s largest seas, has an average depth of about half that of oceans.

Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas. A study in Science journal says climate change, fishing ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is ...