At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is what to do about it.

Typhoon Maria scrambled bacterial communities at every ocean depth, and researchers with rare timing captured the entire ...

May 19 - It is not every day that the president of a remote Atlantic archipelago and a U.S. congressman from the California coast are brought together. We share no border, no language, no common ...

Shells of tiny ocean creatures reveal a hidden boundary in the Atlantic that could affect the Earth's global carbon cycle.

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. One of the two American service members missing in Morocco jumped into the ocean to ...

Research led by the University of Alabama found that widespread wildfires during one of Earth's ancient environmental crises ...

A surfer killed in rough waters at San Francisco’s Ocean beach during unseasonably large waves this week has been identified. Sandro Ricardo Britz, 55, of San Francisco, is being mourned by the local ...

EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Paradise, Divergent) will narrate Ocean Dreams, an IMAX and Giant Screen documentary highlighting the importance of the world’s oceans from SK Films and Deep Sea ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...