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The government says the water it is discharging has been treated to remove most of the radioactive material.

The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the "most unprecedented transition in history" in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.

As the climate gets hotter, animals and plants are moving because it is harder to survive where they live. One of the most consequential shifts is happening to some of the smallest living things.

Millions of tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean every year. Scientists are calling on the federal government to come up with a comprehensive policy to stop it.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with John Kerry, former secretary of state and Biden-era climate envoy, about the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France.

The water, collected by scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, measured 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit. "It really is weird," a research scientist said. It all started with the blob.

Some of the impacts from climate change can happen suddenly. New research shows that a major ocean current in the Atlantic is at risk of collapsing. That could affect weather around the globe.

Alsop talks about the joys and challenges of leading an orchestra. John Powers reviews Tokyo Vice. Vuong sifts through the aftershock of grief in Time Is a Mother.

A source tells NPR a piece of wing found on an island appears to be from a large passenger plane. Other media say sources link it to a Boeing 777 like the Malaysian jet that disappeared last year.

Marine scientists have begun restoring corals to underwater nurseries as waters have cooled and conditions have improved off Florida's coast, following a summer of record-breaking ocean temperatures.