Mysterious seafloor plateau off East Coast being explored for first time by NOAA team

Mysterious seafloor plateau off East Coast being explored for first time by NOAA team

A NOAA expedition is underway to explore unmapped areas of seafloor off the East Coast, including th

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Underwater City of Heracleion, Egypt Gives Up its Treasures

Underwater City of Heracleion, Egypt Gives Up its Treasures

Osirian statuettes of gods and goddesses found in situ on the floor of the sea at ancient Heracleion

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'Living fossil' fish may live for up to a century

'Living fossil' fish may live for up to a century

image copyrightGetty Imagesimage captionStaff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth c

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Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Suggests

Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Suggests

The octopus is becoming a popular creature among neuroscientists. It is a very smart invertebrate wi

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Darwin got sexual selection backwards, research suggests

Darwin got sexual selection backwards, research suggests

Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, while he was collecting e

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Can eating fish be sustainable?

Can eating fish be sustainable?

Industrial fishing is emptying our oceans and fishing methods also endangers other marine animals an

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Flushed antidepressants make this animal unusually "bold,” scientists discover

Flushed antidepressants make this animal unusually "bold,” scientists discover

At a University of Florida lab, crayfish are going wild. In a video published by University of Flori

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Mysterious methane-eating microbes in the sea are 'helping to keep Earth cool'

Researchers now know why so little methane reaches the sea surface. (Getty) Microbes in the ocean ar

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Mediterranean Turning into Tropical Sea, WWF Warns

Mediterranean Turning into Tropical Sea, WWF Warns

A beach on the Greek island of Lesvos. Credit: Jordan Kapantais / CC BY-SA 4.0 The Mediterranean is

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Deep-sea shark bonanza seen off remote island chain

Deep-sea shark bonanza seen off remote island chain

A tornado of silver horse mackerel and orange boarfish swirls around the submersible as it sits on t

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‘Eating into their flesh’: Reef sharks with skin disease may be the latest victims of climate change

‘Eating into their flesh’: Reef sharks with skin disease may be the latest victims of climate change

Divers in the waters off Malaysia’s Sipadan Island have long enjoyed getting a glimpse of turtles, m

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Fish are swimming to cooler waters as climate change heats our oceans

Fish are swimming to cooler waters as climate change heats our oceans

This month in Climate Now we report on the big changes underway in our oceans from a fish market in

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