OPT harnesses ocean power with some bright yellow buoys (VIDEO).

Rutherford Seydel's Oxygen Project creates a sustainable Earth while creating financial sustainability for all. All it will take is a massive group action.

The aquifer is hundreds of feet under the seabed, spans 200 miles along the U.S. East Coast, and hints at similar deposits elsewhere.

The world's oceans are hurting, and we're the only ones who can do anything about it — so read up.

Australian actress Rachel Ward is featured in 'Pioneers of Television: Miniseries'.

The world's oceans are turning acidic even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago.

Singer-songwriter, in collaboration with G-Star Raw, will create jeans made from plastic-based 'bionic yarn'.

The latest from the SKYGLOW project captures the Grand Canyon during a full cloud inversion.

The project will utilize a 2,000-meter barrier, making it the largest floating structure ever deployed in the ocean.

Former surfing champion Ashley Lloyd Thompson is making waves in the world of surfboard shaping.

New marine reserves are making a big splash around the planet — and not a moment too soon.

Examining layers of offshore sediment can provide insight into the link between glaciers and climate change.

What does a splintering iceberg sound like underwater? Imagine the cracks and pops of an ice cube melting in a glass of lemonade multiplied on a colossal scale.

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography traveled out to a spot of sea 1,000 miles from shore and were sad to find plastic everywhere.

Leading coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson speaks at TED about the havoc humanity is wreaking on the ocean.

A shipping container filled with rubber duckies was lost at sea in 1992, and the bath toys are still washing ashore today.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new animation shows the path of the debris carried out to sea by last year's massive tsunami in Japan. The tsunami triggered by the devastating earthquake tha

The great Pacific garage patch is giving sea striders a place to breed out on the open ocean, changing the natural environment there, new research suggests.

Even if you don't live near the sea, there's plenty you can do to help the cause.

Marine debris is transformed into art for a new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, offering an eerie look at Earth's plastic problem.

There's a secret world of microbes hidden on the plastic littering the oceans.

The winner of a new video contest can join a 3-week 'hardcore sailing adventure' through North Atlantic garbage patches.

A vast amount of the plastic garbage littering the surface of the ocean may be disappearing, a new study suggests.

Earth's oceans now contain 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic trash, according to the most thorough survey of its kind.

A new study reveals the global pace of plastic pollution, where it's coming from, and how we might start to stem the tide.

Ocean currents have carried about 300 billion pieces of plastic trash to the Arctic Ocean, a new study finds, and more is on the way.

A 4th garbage collection zone, this one in the South Pacific, emerges.

Up to 95 percent of the plastic waste carried out to sea by rivers seems to travel through just 10 waterways, according to a new study.

The Indian Ocean is the world's biggest plastic dumping ground, but some of it is leaking elsewhere.

Scientists are are trying to understand why fish eat ocean plastic, how it affects them and how it affects their predators — including us.

Alexandra Cousteau revisits Scott St. Pierre in Louisiana and learns how he and others are coping with the oil spill.

The DOE has awarded $5 million for offshore wind energy facilities and renewable ocean energy projects.

Innovators like Sea2See and Adidas are taking marine trash and turning it into treasure.

CBS EcoMedia's Paul Polizzotto says his biggest business influence has been the ocean.

Carbon dioxide emissions are making the ocean more acidic. The lower pH level inhibits the ability of many marine plants and animals to build their shells and s

The Aldabra banded snail was believed to have been driven to extinction by climate change, but researchers have found a few stragglers.

Who or what is making the sound remains a mystery, but it may be a 'dinner bell' signaling feeding time for deep sea creatures.

The unknown species is believed to be a snailfish with 'large wing-like fins and a head resembling a cartoon dog.'

Monster-like creatures live thousands of feet below the surface, and they've adapted to hostile environments by taking on cool — and scary — physical traits.

A re-edited NASA simulation shows what Earth would look like if our oceans drained away.

Scientists are outfitting wandering albatrosses with radar to spot illegal operations in the open sea where technology fails.

A new study finds some marine animals are brilliant virus exterminators.

Boyan Slat’s system has arrived at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and it's already collecting plastic.

Mimi Ausland began as an advocate for animals with her interactive quiz website that donates food to shelters. Now, she's tackling plastic waste in the ocean.

The rate of warming in the oceans is 'relentless,' and the hottest 5 years ever recorded were the last 5.

Boyan Slat's plastic cleanup system successfully collects plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and has started picking up trash in rivers, too.

A major new review calls for urgent action to restore our ailing oceans.

The new refuges aim to protect sea ice, wildlife and the economic stability of indigenous people.