Ocean

South Korean navy recovers body of seaman missing near North Korean border

The South Korean navy did not provide any details about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.

South Korean Navy PKMR-class Fast Patrol Boat fires during a fleet review to mark the 80th anniversary of the Navy's founding, in the waters off Busan, South Korea, September 26, 2025.
Daniel Pinsky.

250 days alone against the ocean: The Israeli taking on one of the world's toughest challenges

The wreck of the Japanese “Hellship” transport Hōfuku Maru, July 3, 2026.

Wreck of Japan's WWII 'Hellship' carrying Allied POWs found off Philippine coast after 80 years

The submarine USS Herring (SS-233) passes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on October 12, 1943.

USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII


Wreck of famed Shackleton’s last expedition ship ‘Quest’ found underwater off Canada’s coast

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, was found off Canada's coast, 62 years after it vanished, using sonar scans by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

 An undated side-scan sonar image shows the wreck of Quest, Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition ship on which he died off the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic in 1922, as it lies upright and intact on the seabed at a depth of 390 metres northwest of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

Could AI save the oceans from pollution and overfishing?

About 5.25 trillion tiny pieces of plastic – or more than 600 pieces for each of the three billion people on Earth – have entered the oceans and seas.

The Mediterranean ecosystem is experiencing changes because of both climate change and increased human activities near and at sea

Marine experts in Australia in race to save 140 stranded pilot whales

Up to four pods of whales have washed ashore in Western Australia near Perth.

Youths push a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), one of dozens which got stranded at a beach in Bangkalan near Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, February 19, 2021

UN sounds 'Red Alert' as world smashes heat records in 2023

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) claimed that in 2023 every major global climate record was broken and in 2024 this can only get worse if nothing changes.

 Global warming: Temperatures in 2022 fifth warmest on record (Illustrative).

Climate change drives global redistribution of fish species, new study finds

Examining thousands of populations from almost 150 fish species, the research shows that contrary to the prevailing view, rapid range shifts coincide with widescale reduction in the numbers of fish.

 Fish swim in the Gulf of Eilat's coral reef.

18th-century British warship found off coast of Florida

After the ship was wrecked, about 300 crewmembers managed to survive 66 days stuck on what is now known as Garden Key, the second largest island in the Dry Tortugas.

A National Park Service diver documents one of five coral-encrusted cannons found during a recent archeological survey in Dry Tortugas National Park.

Over 100 new marine species discovered in underwater expedition in Chile

The southeast Pacific is a geological hotbed and is littered with hydrothermal vents that sustain a wide variety of living creatures.

 Underwater coral reef

Iran targeted two Israeli-linked ships after Al-Arouri assassination - report

The two ships targeted by the IRGC were the Liberian-flagged CHEM CILICON, owned by ACE Maritime Services, and the Singaporean-flagged PACIFIC GUL, owned by Eastern.

 IRGC Navy's speedboats move during an exercise in Abu Musa Island, in this picture obtained on August 2, 2023

Jellyfish can learn from past experiences despite having no brain – study

Jellyfish were able to learn where obstacles were placed and actively avoid them.

Jellyfish 370

Israeli scientists link dinosaur-era ocean swirls, modern climate change

Hebrew University team evaluates role of gyral circulation on temperatures in tropics, poles during the Cretaceous period.

A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California is seen in an image from NOAA's GOES-West satellite taken at 0930 EST (1430 GMT) February 28, 2014. According