Ocean Stories

NPR's Robert Krulwich takes us to the Arctic, where these ice flowers show us that life is abundant everywhere on our blue planet.

Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and a passionate defender of the oceans, will share her call to action at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.

Legendary explorer and Mission Blue founder Sylvia Earle descends beneath the waves in Pisces, in possibly it's last mission to the ocean floor.

Aquarius is the only place in the world where scientists, artists, poets and others can live underwater, using the ocean as a laboratory...

With a blend of science and art, Courtney Mattison is educating people about how global warming, ocean acidification, and other environmental threats are harming the world’s coral reefs.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science, James Cameron tells Newsweek, is to take human explorers out of the water.

“It’s happening,” Earle says of her lifelong push into the deep. “This is a sweet spot in time. For the first time we can see what was once impossible to see."

"The population of Pacific bluefin tuna is a small fraction of what it used to be, and is in danger of all but disappearing."

Every year over 100,000 marine mammals die from the harmful effects of ocean trash.

“We are "Marsifying" earth, turning the blue planet into something that is less hospitable to our species,” says Mission Blue founder, Dr. Sylvia Earle.