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If you liked this story, share it with other people. On July 12, oceanographer and geographer Dawn Wright was sealed inside a submersible, traveling to Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ...

New research shows that ocean acidification is getting worse and may have already passed beyond "safe" boundaries in many ...

As World Oceans Day approaches on June 8, a new survey sheds light on how different generations perceive and interact with ...

In fact, only around a couple dozen people have actually been to the deepest part of the ocean floor, a place known as Challenger Deep. Marine geographer Dawn Wright is one of those people.

A global summit on the dire state of the oceans kicks off Monday in France, with calls to ban bottom trawling and bolster ...

The samples tested excluded polar regions. Oceans have absorbed 90 per cent of the excess heat produced by human activity since the dawn of the industrial age, according to scientists. This excess ...

The oceans have shaped all life on earth By combining natural history history and science and through a judicious use of CGI this film sketches a neverbeforeseen picture of the oceans and how life ...