oceans

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Seabird biologist David Irons drove recently to the Prince William Sound community of Whittier to check on a friend's boat an...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported — a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More Arctic sea ice melting each summer from global warming is making it easier for ships to plot routes through the environm...

San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf typically bustles this time of year as workers prepare to haul millions of pounds of Dungeness crab that are a tradi...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — There's far more riding on the Americas' largest seawater desalination plant than the 50 million gallons of drinking water it ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — African countries on Sunday dismissed an early draft of a U.N. climate accord as "unbalanced" and demanded amendments to even conside...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The directors of the Trump Ocean Club met July 28 on urgent business. They needed to fire Donald Trump. The building's residents an...

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — President Barack Obama declared new marine sanctuaries in Lake Michigan and the tidal waters of Maryland on Monday, while Chi...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's dry hole in the Chukchi Sea may be disappointing to shareholders, but it's potentially devastating to Ala...

GENEVA (AP) — The current El Nino weather pattern may be on track to become one of the strongest in more than half a century, experts at the World Met...

SYDNEY (AP) — For 17 months, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was, in a sense, nowhere. The lack of any tangible clue to its fate was eerie, unsettling, b...

BALMA, France (AP) — French and Malaysian experts on Wednesday began examining an airplane wing fragment that could offer the first tangible clue abou...

SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion (AP) — The wing fragment found on the French island of Reunion was wrapped and ready to be loaded Friday on a cargo flight for th...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — The Coast Guard hopes lab tests will determine the source of a mysterious miles-long oil slick floating about 1,000 yards off Ca...

NEW YORK (AP) — Head over to Cody VandeZande's condo in Chicago and you won't find a room without sharks. He's the proud possessor of shark bookends, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Polar bears are at risk of dying off if humans don't reverse the trend of global warming, a blunt U.S. government report file...