Even without climate change, the Outer Banks—a nearly two-hundred-mile stretch of barrier islands between the mainland and the Atlantic, running from just north of Roanoke Island, where the British ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Visiting the coast can help you relieve stress and get more active—and it may even change the way you cope with pain. There's little more relaxing than spending time at the beach—but what's going on ...

Siladitya Ray is a New Delhi-based Forbes news team reporter. The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located off the Pacific Northwest coast that last erupted in 2015 and spewed several miles of ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known than other volcanic giants of ...

Climate change caused the maximum wind speeds generated by roughly 80% of Atlantic Basin hurricanes from 2019 and 2023 to intensify by an average of 18 miles per hour, according to a new Climate ...

A sea turtle swims in a coral reef in Hawaii. Ocean acidification, found to be on the brink of crossing a boundary into higher-risk territory, can affect coral skeleton formation. Toby Matthews via ...

Edward Berger, left, and Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven' Getty Images/Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: This is a bit early, but The Dish hears momentum is building on the ...

A has-been actor tries to get back in touch with his creative side — but awakens his romantic one more — in the South Korean stalwart's Locarno competition entry. Premiering in competition at the ...