Ocean

But scientists are having a hard time illustrating these problems as shifting baselines continue to redefine what is considered normal for reef health.

• By Todd Woody

A less icy Arctic will be an economic boon for some, but marine wildlife experts are focused on the increased risks more ships will pose to certain polar species.

• By Erica Cirino

Plum Island is a case study in how communities are reacting not just to the ebb-and-flow of nature, but to a changing ocean.

• By Simón Ríos

Alaska Airlines has become the first airline to renounce the use of plastic straws in an effort to raise awareness about the use of single-use plastics that pollute the world's oceans.

• By Matthew O. Berger

Marine researchers are hoping to uncover what is drawing the sharks to an open stretch of ocean in the Pacific known as "White Shark Cafe."

• By Alastair Bland

A visitor participates at an event during the eighth World Water Forum in Brasília, Brazil, on March 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Hint: Don't go after the Great Pacific garbage patch—which, by the way, isn't really a patch at all.

• By Nathan Collins

Here was some of the big news coming in from the big blue sea in 2015.

• By David Helvarg

Any oil that would have sunk to the bottom of the ocean is out of sight—but officials shouldn't put it out of mind.

• By Francie Diep

Now a cold, barren desert, Mars once had an ocean bigger than the Arctic.

• By Wes Judd

It's a fearsome problem. But we're not just watching helplessly.

• By John Upton

As global warming melts ice and ushers in a wave of commercial activity in the Arctic, scientists are thinking about how to protect environments of the future.

• By John Upton

Ships disappear everywhere, not just in the western North Atlantic Ocean.

• By Katie Heaney

For starters, let's stop calling it "Earth Day."

• By Ryan O'Hanlon