Heat content in oceans doubled in 10 years, finds study

Earth’s oceans have absorbed 90 per cent of the heat from global warming

Troubled waters

OIL SLICK

DIRTY WATER

Marine medicine

A messy little marine pest can protect us from cancer, claim US scientists

Fast invader

How should Andaman & Nicobar tackle the African giant snail?

One-sixth of European mammals facing extinction , says IUCN

Thick ones, pointy ones – how albatross beaks evolved to match their prey

Beak size, shape varied between albatross species, making it a useful tool for identifying species that otherwise look similar

We've been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years

New research suggests the "primordial soup" theory can't explain how living cells evolved to harness energy

How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish

How flawed citation practices can perpetuate scientific ideas even before they've been fully established as true

Carbon as old as 8,000 years found in deepest blue hole

Finding to help study carbon cycling and potential mechanisms controlling it 

Deadly blooms

Whaling under veil

Back to life

Bleached coral reefs are recovering faster than expected

To kill a rock

INDONESIA

Tackling oil spills

Spilling disaster

Nine animals fall victim to a diesel oilspill in the Galapagos Islands

Tasteless plan

Nemo finds its predator

Rising carbon emissions muddle smelling ability of small fish

Polymer plume: Over 170 trillion plastic particles are floating in the oceans, says study

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has reached unprecedented levels over the past 15 years

Rare microbial predators with voracious appetite form a new branch in ‘tree of life’: Study

Learning more about these undiscovered branches of life can help shed more light on the foundations of the living world and how evolution works

Oceans Great Dying 2.0: Mass extinction haunts oceans

Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans 

Madagascar emerges as hotspot for endangered whale sharks

85 juvenile sharks visited various spots of the island nation’s coast in a single season, says study

Killer algae strikes