The complex biology of an octopus shines through as a brief snippet displays its unique ability to camouflage in water.

Mars – dusty, dry, and desert-clad – was once so rich in water it had not just lakes, but oceans, according to a new study. Observations using ground-penetrating radar have revealed underground ...

Alaska Stand, an Ocean City Boardwalk establishment since 1933, will close after the 2025 summer season. The burger joint's 9th Street location will become home to another Ocean City staple ...

Iconic Ocean City, Maryland, Boardwalk establishment Alaska Stand has announced its imminent closure. The small business, which has captured the hearts of countless local residents and seasonal ...

West of Alaska in North America's north-west, lay the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Alaska and Russia are separated by the Bering Sea and therein, the Bering Strait. The sea and the strait ...

Due to evolutionary pressures and the light spectrum available to photosynthesizing cyanobacteria on early Earth, the world’s oceans were likely much greener than they are today. Although the ...

Names associated with the ocean (or water in general) hold a special place in my heart. One of my friends who lives with his family out in California lives near the ocean, and all of them have names ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, our planet might have looked green from a distance, instead of the pale blue dot we know today. Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion ...

The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held in Nice, France, in June, could help to redefine global ocean governance. But the conference’s political statement — the UNOC3 ...

This striking satellite image, taken from Google Maps in 2021, shows a bizarre, jet-black, triangular structure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. At the time, the mysterious object, which was ...

Working during the brief Arctic summer, clean-up operations were carried out in Alaska, Greenland ... partnered with the Ocean Conservancy and various local groups like Keep Norway Clean to ...