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Turkey is rushing to combat a pollution-caused muck in the Sea of Marmara that's growing across the seabed and excretes a foul mucus on the water's surface.

Coastal communities across the state and nation, including some First Coast beaches, saw record high-tide flooding in 2020, and that trend is expected to…

Talos Energy, the Houston-based company paying for the cleanup, said it's working with state and federal agencies to identify the owner of the ruptured pipeline, about 2 miles off the Louisiana coast.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing a speed limit for ships entering ports along the eastern seaboard. The goal is to save right whales from being struck and killed. Shipping companies say there is no proof that slowing their vessels will help the endangered mammals.

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck early Thursday near the South Pacific nation of Tonga, prompting tsunami warnings for as far away as Fiji and New Zealand. The warning was lifted after a tsunami of less than 2 feet was recorded.

Maine lobsterman and scientist Ted Ames tells host Melissa Block about how he has used his biochemistry background -- and a life on the ocean -- to study changing fish populations and develop sustainable fisheries management practices. Ames is one of the 2005 recipients of the MacArthur grants announced Tuesday.

It’s been almost a year since a barge transporting coal ash from Puerto Rico to a landfill in Folkston, Georgia, spilled more than 5,000 tons of the toxic industrial byproduct into the ocean off Atlantic Beach.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition, about the effect of historic flooding on the Mississippi River on corn and soybean farmers.

Two people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday afternoon.

A Michelin-star chef in Brittany is showing a way to help save global fish stocks one diner at a time.