The move is designed to protect marine life around the Pacific island state.

As plastic piles up on beaches, hermit crabs are getting trapped in plastic containers and killed.

Potent chemicals are unwittingly passed down from mother to calf, according to a UK study.

Plastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow, according to research.

Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.

From Bermuda and the Azores to Ireland and France, large numbers of shoes are washing ashore.

Have we found some of the technologies that can finally help us survey Earth's unknown depths?

Researchers say sea levels may rise by 2m by the end of this century, double current predictions.

Almost a quarter of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now unstable, according to a new study.

An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.