Ocean(Page 4)

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth. This is the latest on protecting their vast ecosystems.

Latest in Ocean

Plastic fishing gear brings in a better catch, but there’s a big tradeoff

Plastic fishing gear brings in a better catch, but there’s a big tradeoff

By Alastair Bland/Hakai Magazine

Revo Foods 3D-printed salmon

The world’s first 3D-printed salmon is hitting store shelves, and it looks kind of good

An orca whale swims around an ice flow with a crabeater seal and penguin on the ice.

New series offers an intimate look into how climate change impacts the lives of wildlife

By Laura Baisas

MIT Van Atta Backscatter array closeup

This new subsea communications system can run on an iota of power

An eruption emerges from the ocean in a cloud of ash and a lightning strike.

The Tonga volcanic eruption reshaped the seafloor in mind-boggling ways

Sunset over pacific ocean

The Pacific heat blob’s aftereffects are still warping ocean ecosystems

By Ethan Freedman/Hakai Magazine

Coral reef with a variety of hard and soft corals and tropical fish

Scientists are intentionally bleaching and ‘cryopreserving’ coral

Two Emperor penguin chicks standing on sea ice in Antarctica.

Emperor penguins suffer ‘unprecedented’ breeding failure as sea ice disappears

By Laura Baisas

A coral reef just off of an island in Palau. Coral reefs in Palau provide critical habitats for a number of species and provide a storm barrier.

Some Pacific coral reefs can keep pace with a warming ocean

By Laura Baisas

Elkhorn coral fragments in lab

The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from a historic heatwave

By Michael Childress/The Conversation

A many tentacled feather star.

Behold a 20-armed, strawberry-shaped Antarctic sea creature

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Four bivalve species found along the Maine coast, including the Northern Quahog, Eastern Oyster, a steamer clam, and a blue mussel presented together in a bed of seaweed at low tide.

Popular shellfish resist extinction in surprising ways

By Laura Baisas

Two penguins and a seal on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Antarctica is in the climate change crosshairs

By Laura Baisas

Giant yellow dump truck depositing sand on San Francisco beach because of coastal erosion

Why your favorite beach might be eroding

A long and skinny silver trumpetfish uses a colorful parrotfish as camouflage.

Trumpetfish use other fish as camouflage

By Laura Baisas

Crab in ocean reaching with pincher.

As oceans become more acidic, creatures could struggle to smell

By Ethan Freedman/Hakai Magazine

Porites rus corals and scuba diver

Coral is reproducing in broad daylight

By Chloe Glad/Hakai Magazine

Swimmers walk out of the water after an evening swim on a beach in Avarua on Rarotonga, the largest Island in the Cook Islands.

The Cook Islands appear to embrace deep-sea mining—but at what risk?

By Rachel Reeves/Hakai Magazine

Dead elkhorn coral at Sombrero Reef in the Florida Keys. The white areas are bleached coral, the brownish orange patches are "tissue slough", coral tissue that has died before it has a chance to bleach.

Mass coral reef bleaching in Florida as ocean temperatures hit 100 degrees

By Laura Baisas

deep sea bubbles

The key to bringing deep sea samples up to the coast? An underwater freezer.

By Annie Roth / Hakai Magazine

American actor Richard Dreyfuss (left) (as marine biologist Hooper) and British author and actor Robert Shaw (as shark fisherman Quint) look off the stern of Quint's fishing boat the 'Orca' at the terrifying approach of the mechanical giant shark dubbed 'Bruce' in a scene from the film 'Jaws' directed by Steven Spielberg, 1975.

Why the creators of ‘Jaws’ regretted making sharks the monsters

By Laura Baisas

Person holds "SOS!! Pacific Ocean!" sign at Fukushima water release protest.

Japan’s plan to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant is actually pretty safe

Pair of bluefin tuna strung up on a fishing crane on the coast of Spain

Who caught the first bluefin tuna?

By Karen Pinchin

A green sea turtle swims in the ocean.

Hungry green sea turtles have eaten in the same seagrass meadows for about 3,000 years

By Laura Baisas

Ocean waves crashing.

How climate change is pushing oxygen out of the world’s oceans

By Carla Delgado

An image of the northern Gulf of Mexico created from remote-sensing reflectance and chlorophyll measurements taken from newly reprocessed VIIRS data. Green water is seen closer to the coast, while it gets darker and more blue further out.

Scientists say the ocean is changing color—and it’s probably our fault

By Laura Baisas

A banded sea snake swimming freely

Some sea snakes may not be colorblind after all

By Laura Baisas

A large group of shells on a beach. Organisms with hard, durable parts, like shells, are more likely to be preserved as fossils than organisms composed entirely of soft tissue.

The fossil record holds clues about modern-day marine ecology

By Laura Baisas

Octopuses brooding near hydrothermal vents deep under water. The 19-day Octopus Odyssey expedition located a site of low temperature (7oC) hydrothermal venting with brooding octopus on an unnamed outcrop that was explored for the very first time on this trip.

New species of inkless octopus may have been found in Costa Rica’s deep seas

By Laura Baisas

Common bottlenose dolphins swimming in Coffee Bay in South Africa.

Drones are following dolphins to spy on their complex social lives

By Laura Baisas

Coastal flooding predictions triple

Coastal flooding predictions triple

By J. Besl/Hakai Magazine

OceanGate Titan submersible side view in water

OceanGate confirms missing Titan submersible passengers ‘have sadly been lost’

A school of grunts and horse-eye jack fish swim above a reef in Hol Chan Marine Reserve near Ambergris Cay, Belize.

Fish are thriving near marine protected areas—and so are coastal communities

By Laura Baisas

Orca whale pod off Iberian coast from the subpopulation of orcas attacking sailboats in Europe

Orcas are attacking boats. But is it revenge or trauma?

Sea Zero Cruise ship Concept, sails fully extended

This concept cruise ship will have solar-paneled sails, an AI copilot, and zero emissions

Lionfish are now threatening ecosystems and livelihoods in Brazil

Lionfish are now threatening ecosystems and livelihoods in Brazil

By Osmar J. Luiz/The Conversation

An elk grazing in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

The role of people in preserving nature, according to America’s National Parks docuseries

By Laura Baisas

The sun over the ocean. Over 5,000 species could be at risk if deep sea mining begins in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

A deep sea mining zone in the remote Pacific is also a goldmine of unique species

By Laura Baisas

El Nino 2023 signs on NASA weather satellite data on higher Pacific Ocean temperatures and water levels, marked by red around the equator

El Niño is back—here’s what that means

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Magellan Ltd 3D scan of Titanic wreckage

Staggering 3D scan of the Titanic shows the wreck down to the millimeter

A coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba in the Red Sea. Corals here and in the Persian Gulf are particularly affected by light pollution.

Light pollution is messing with coral reproduction

By Laura Baisas

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters

By Janine Peralta/Hakai Magazine

Yellow-green cyanobacteria bloom in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Events like these can cause mass fish dieoffs.

A fish-kill mystery in a remote Alaska village takes a toxic turn

By Saima Sidik/Hakai Magazine

A swirl of dust from the Sahara desert is carried on winds above the Mediterranean.

The epic journey of dust in the wind often ends with happy plankton

A rendering of Proteus.

An ambitious underwater ‘space station’ just got a major research collaborator

By Charlotte Hu

Volcanoes can be a fiery death sentence for fish

Volcanoes can be a fiery death sentence for fish

By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine

tsunami warning sign in Israel

New AI-based tsunami warning software could help save lives

By Jamie Helmick

Deep-sea mining has murky aftereffects

Deep-sea mining has murky aftereffects

By Elham Shabahat/Hakai Magazine

Sleeping elephant seals on a California beach

Seals snooze during 20-minute ‘sleeping dives’ to avoid predators

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Turf wars between whales and crabbers have increased due to climate change

Turf wars between whales and crabbers have increased due to climate change

By Jesse Kathan / Hakai Magazine

The UN’s first high seas treaty could help dwindling Pacific salmon

The UN’s first high seas treaty could help dwindling Pacific salmon

By Sarah Trent / High Country News

Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup’s 2018 expedition.

Some coastal critters are thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Laura Baisas

A mangrove tree in Florida to represent blue carbon and the ocean's power to fight climate change

Blue carbon is a natural climate solution with big potential

Baby cod seem to be drawn to the lullaby of wind turbines

Baby cod seem to be drawn to the lullaby of wind turbines

By Emily Harwitz / Hakai Magazine

Ocean waves crashing on rocky shoreline on cloudy day.

Pendulums under ocean waves could prevent beach erosion

Icebergs over the ocean in Greenland.

Antarctic ice can melt 20 times faster than we thought

By Laura Baisas

A close-up of extended polyps of an apparently healthy great star coral colony on a reef near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tentacles surrounding the mouth of each polyp help trap food particles for the coral to eat.

Caribbean coral is getting sick and dying. A probiotic could help.

By Laura Baisas

Lolita the killer whale performing its 40th anniversary performance at Miami Seaquarium.

After 50 years in captivity, Lolita the orca may be freed

By Laura Baisas

How can you tell a dolphin’s age? Check its freckles.

How can you tell a dolphin’s age? Check its freckles.

By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine

Ankylosaur in blue floatie and life vest riding the ocean waves. Prehistoric trees and a full moon are in the background. Illustrated.

Why dinosaurs were terrible swimmers

President Joe Biden standing at a podium, addressing the White House Conservation in Action Summit.

The US inches closer to protecting 30 percent of all its lands and oceans

By Laura Baisas

A stinky, 5,000-mile-long wad of seaweed is about to gunk up Florida’s beaches

A stinky, 5,000-mile-long wad of seaweed is about to gunk up Florida’s beaches

By Sara Kiley Watson

Whitespotted eagle ray swimming in the ocean.

Scientists test different gear for protecting clams from ‘crunching’ rays

By Laura Baisas

X1 Wind's X30 floating wind turbine prototype off the Canary Islands coast

This floating wind turbine just generated its first kilowatt hour of power