Heavy rainfall led to record flooding in parts of the nation.

America's marine economy is an entrepreneurial engine at the forefront of an expanding ocean frontier.

Today marks World Oceans Day, a day that aims to raise awareness in protecting and restoring our oceans and its resources.

In previous research, it has been assumed that insects in temperate regions would cope well with or even benefit from a warmer climate. Not so, according to researchers from the Universities of Uppsala and Lund in Sweden and Oviedo, Spain, in a new study.

Evidence of steep declines in muskrat numbers have been observed throughout the animal’s native range.

University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues are forecasting this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or “dead zone”—an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life—to be approximately 6,700 square miles, roughly the size of Connecticut and Delaware combined.

Researchers have projected significant changes in the habitat of commercially important American lobster and sea scallops on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf.

A new study has revealed that almost 13,000 tonnes of microfibres, equivalent to two rubbish trucks every day, are being released into European marine environments every year – but this could be reduced by as much as 30% if we made a small change to our laundry habits. 

Through the study of an unusual, long-lasting slide, has developed a new technique to make prediction easier and more accurate.

Globally, May was 0.63°C warmer than the average May from 1981-2010, the warmest May in this data record.