Dr. B.J. Copeland, 89, who died Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, influenced coastal science and management in the state for decades.

China and the Philippines said on Friday they launched rescue operations after receiving reports of a sinking cargo ship near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea that was carrying 21 ...

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial fishing methods that have devastated seabeds elsewhere. “The inshore archipelagos on the West Coast of Scotland used to ...

A Florida charter boat captain was caught allegedly trafficking cocaine to undercover deputies in a dramatic marina bust that ...

For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national jurisdiction, it was governed by custom, fragmented rules, and the ...

Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s ...

The global humpy leader Scientists can argue about the ecological consequences of Alaska salmon hatcheries helping to flood the North Pacific Ocean with pink salmon, but what appears clear now is ...

Nestled along California’s Central Coast, Grover Beach gives you all the ocean fun without emptying your wallet. The wide, flat beach here is one of the few places in California where you can actually ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend with fishing gear wrapped ...

The center’s Marine Animal Entanglement Response team found the entangled young right whale “with fishing rope wrapped around ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...