Keeping track of ocean health is critical for understanding climate change, weather patterns, and the health of important fisheries. But how do NOAA and partner scientists gather data on such a vast environment?

As our climate warms, ice melting from glaciers around the world is one of main causes of sea-level rise.

An analysis of geostationary satellite data found a 10 to 15 percent increase in greening around the rainforest during the dry season.

In the deep waters that underlie the productive zones of the ocean, there is a constant rain of organic material called 'marine snow'.

Swedish researchers from institutions including Uppsala University have spent four years gathering data from the areas affected by the major forest fire of 2014. 

Pollinators are under threat worldwide. Researchers such as Dr Margaret Couvillon study bees to find solutions that will benefit the survival of pollinators. 

Corals that withstood a severe bleaching event and were transplanted to a different reef maintained their resilient qualities, according to a new study led by Katie Barott of the School of Arts & Sciences.

Plastic pollution has been found in seawater, on beaches and inside marine animals at the Galapagos Islands.

During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine biologists know little about the life of the world’s second-largest whale. 

Scientists have got up close and personal with human sewage to determine how best to measure hidden and potentially dangerous plastics.