Ocean(Page 5)

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

Latest in Ocean

A tiny fish is more genetically diverse than we thought. Here’s why that matters.

A tiny fish is more genetically diverse than we thought. Here’s why that matters.

By Brian Owens / Hakai Magazine

A pod of dolphins swimming together in blue water.

The ‘High-Seas Treaty’ to protect marine life in the open ocean finally makes progress

By Laura Baisas

Lichens may help forecast sea level rise

Lichens may help forecast sea level rise

By Ian Rose / Hakai Magazine

Research student holding graphene seaweed hydrogel in gloved hand

MasterChef inspired an edible medical sensor

Purple sea urchins clumped together in an urchin barren.

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels

barnacles on the beach

Slow-moving shoreline creatures are sitting ducks for climate change

By Michael Allen / Hakai Magazine

An adult humpback whale surfaces above the water in eastern Australia.

A group of humpback whales is choosing violence

By Laura Baisas

Millions of dead crabs ended up in the deep sea. Scientists still aren’t sure why.

Millions of dead crabs ended up in the deep sea. Scientists still aren’t sure why.

By Fanni Szakal / Hakai Magazine

Oyster farms are all the rage—until they block your ocean views

Oyster farms are all the rage—until they block your ocean views

By Magdalena Puniewska / Hakai Magazine

A pink wave curs in the Pacific Ocean.

Gnarly pink waves crash near San Diego

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of Chasm-1, a crack in Antarctica's Brunt Ice Sheet.

A chunk of ice twice the size of New York City broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf

By Laura Baisas

Plastic, pollution, and prescription drugs are making fish act erratically

Plastic, pollution, and prescription drugs are making fish act erratically

By Doug Johnson/Undark

Pitcher plant with two dead spotted salamanders captured for photography awards

13 otherworldly photos that were actually taken on Earth

By Popular Science Team

Adult zebra shark swims in a tank at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago

A virgin birth in Shedd Aquarium’s shark tank is baffling biologists

By Laura Baisas

Blazing sun over the ocean.

Earth’s oceans are getting hotter and saltier than ever before in human history

By Laura Baisas

A crab’s biggest turn off? Ship noises.

A crab’s biggest turn off? Ship noises.

By Brian Owens / Hakai Magazine

Red and white lighthouses being submerged by sea level rise. Illustration.

Humans and nature will handle rising tides, together

By Philip Kiefer

World governments strike historic deal to protect planet’s biodiversity

World governments strike historic deal to protect planet’s biodiversity

By Laura Baisas

Barnacles on the side of the ship

Better anti-barnacle coating could keep ships smooth with less harm to ocean life

Indigenous ‘sea gardens’ could protect shellfish in an acidifying ocean

Indigenous ‘sea gardens’ could protect shellfish in an acidifying ocean

By Jen Schmidt / Hakai Magazine

Brightly colored tropical fish in a coral reef

To save coral reefs, color the larvae

By Laura Baisas

Plastic bottles and fishing nets and other trash on sea beach

Plastic microfibers in the Mediterranean Sea are keeping bacteria afloat

By Lauren J. Young

Meet SharkGuard, a tiny electric field that protects sharks from fishing nets

Meet SharkGuard, a tiny electric field that protects sharks from fishing nets

Wildfire smoke from across continents is changing the Arctic Ocean’s makeup

Wildfire smoke from across continents is changing the Arctic Ocean’s makeup

By Brian Owens / Hakai Magazine

Noise pollution messes with beluga whales’ travel plans

Noise pollution messes with beluga whales’ travel plans

By Emily Harwitz / Hakai Magazine

Ocean plastic ‘vacuums’ are sucking up marine life along with trash

Ocean plastic ‘vacuums’ are sucking up marine life along with trash

By Carla Delgado

Italian chefs are cooking up a solution to booming jellyfish populations

Italian chefs are cooking up a solution to booming jellyfish populations

By Agostino Petroni / Hakai Magazine

Lab-grown coral

Scientists grow stunning, endangered coral in a lab

By Alex Riley / Hakai Magazine

Barreleye fish from a deep-sea video taken by robotic ocean rovers in Monterey Bay

Your gaming skills could help teach an AI to identify jellyfish and whales

By Charlotte Hu

a great white shark under water

Watch what can happen when killer whales tangle with great white sharks

By Lauren J. Young

Melting glacier pink

Collecting ancient geomyths could give scientists new insights on climate change

By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine

Even mining in shallow waters is bad news for the environment

Even mining in shallow waters is bad news for the environment

By Carla Delgado

Live caught lobster

Why Maine is pushing back on a seafood watch group’s red-listing of the American lobster

By Megan Zhang / Saveur

Hurricane Ian Category 1 Carolina coast satellite image

Hurricane Ian surges back and heads for the Carolinas

By Purbita Saha

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean

By Laura Baisas

What an ancient Maya city excavation taught scientists about the origins of reef fishes

What an ancient Maya city excavation taught scientists about the origins of reef fishes

By Jesse Kathan / Hakai Magazine

Bowl of mussels.

Eating seafood can be more sustainable and healthy than red meat

By Carla Delgado

Philadelphia’s microscopic algae archive is a time machine for coastlands

By Jack Tamisiea / Hakai Magazine

a schematic of a satellite beaming down to a dish to study the ocean floor

The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor’s hidden secrets

By Bill Gourgey

A blue whale near Sri Lanka and a container ship.

World’s largest shipping company reroutes ships to protect world’s largest animals

By Laura Baisas

A cooked lobster claw.

Eating sustainably may mean skipping the lobster for now

By Laura Baisas

A bluefin tuna swimming in the open ocean.

Where food is scarce, ocean predators find snacks in swirling eddies

By Laura Baisas

In a rare, fatal shark attack, tourist killed in the Bahamas

In a rare, fatal shark attack, tourist killed in the Bahamas

By Laura Baisas

a pile of plastic trash with an emphasis of a gray crate filled with other plastic items including a black plastic eel trap

A close look at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch reveals a common culprit

By Lauren J. Young

Tropical Fish on a coral reef and Doublebar bream.

For marine life to survive, we must cut carbon emissions

By Laura Baisas

A scuba diver takes a step into the ocean.

A diver’s guide to a more sustainable scuba adventure

By Carla Delgado

High-tech buoys with underwater microphones could save sperm whales from ship collisions

High-tech buoys with underwater microphones could save sperm whales from ship collisions

By Claudia Geib / Hakai Magazine

Best reef-safe sunscreen sliced header

Best reef-safe sunscreens

By Suzie Dundas

a black woman in a stanford baseball cap stands in the hatch of a submersible about to load

Meet the marine geologist mapping the deepest point on Earth

By Tatyana Woodall

A rare and multicolored sea slug has been recorded in UK waters for the first time.

This dashing tropical sea slug just showed up in the UK

By Sara Kiley Watson

Scientists are reconstructing what ancient whales saw to look into the past

Scientists are reconstructing what ancient whales saw to look into the past

By Jason P. Dinh / Hakai Magazine

Great white shark breaching while trying to bite a seal

Great white shark sightings are up in the US, which is kind of good news

Plastic floating in the sea

Plastic garbage in the sea is a life raft for pathogens

By Michael Allen / Hakai Magazine

Baby orca next to adult in the Salish Sea near Washington

A baby orca sparks a glimmer of hope for an endangered group of whales

Fish poop could help coral reefs.

Fish poop might help fight coral reef bleaching

By Derek Smith / Hakai Magazine

Human pee could be the fertilizer seagrass needs

By Jesse Kathan / Hakai Magazine

Fat baby seal looking at the camera

Facial recognition works on seals. No, really.

By Sean Mowbray / Hakai Magazine

shark-near-florida

Sharks are learning to love coastal cities

By Corinne Iozzio

Boat leaving cruise ship on the ocean.

Care about the planet? Skip the cruise, for now.

Satellite images of the milky seas

We’re getting closer to understanding why the sea sometimes glows

By Sam Keck Scott / Hakai Magazine

Microplastic pellets on the beach.

Horrific blobs of ‘plastitar’ are gunking up Atlantic beaches

By Sara Kiley Watson

Starfish spawning in water

8 award-winning photos of nature’s stranger things

By Stephanie Stone

Ocean simulator in giant saltwater tank at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. A Scripps researcher in a checkered shirt adjusts the settings on a computer with a COVID mask around his elbow.

A 120-foot-long ocean simulator is now making waves across the seven seas

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

A baby sea turtle on a beach near some sea turtle tracks, and some people in the background.

Safely share the beach with endangered sea turtles this summer

By Alisha McDarris