Along the ground, they noticed a yellow sea creature with dozens of tentacles. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers visited several sites in the western end of the Mediterranean Sea between ...

A playful sea lion. An elegant shark. A mother whale. And a few thirsty camels. The Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Dueling drummers are swallowed by a deep-sea leviathan, pounding organs and ribs in time with the beast’s beating heart, finally excreted through an extended sphincter-squeezing jazz solo (“Surripere” ...

Credit: Philippine Coast Guard Subscribe for ads-free reading Four major developments shaped the security environment in the South China Sea in 2024: (1) increased Chinese coercion against ...

Current sea-level projections rely on a range of methods to model climate processes. Some include well-understood phenomena like glacier melting, while others incorporate more uncertain events ...

Swedish authorities have seized a ship suspected of damaging a data cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia. The Vezhen - a Maltese-flagged ship - is now anchored outside the Swedish port of ...

By Nataliya Vasilyeva Reporting from Istanbul When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast in a hazmat suit just before New Year’s Eve ...

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LONDON—For around a decade, the Russian spy ship Yantar has crossed the globe and loitered over undersea cables in what Western officials suspect is an attempt by the Kremlin to map vital ...

The egret raised its gaze, leaned forward and eased its body up, up – taking off into the warm sea breeze. It circled lazily as though lifted by an invisible hand, over tiny sandbars as white as ...