Oceans

Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025

The heat that has accumulated in the oceans in 2025 increased by approximately 23 zettajoules – an amount equivalent to nearly four decades of global primary energy consumption.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Jan 9, 2026

US Vice-President J.D. Vance addressing the media at the White House on Jan 8.

Several whales restrand at New Zealand’s Farewell Spit, six die

People trying to rescue a pod of whales stranded on the shore at Farewell Spit, in Golden Bay, New Zealand, on Jan 8.

A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged

A boy looking at a thresher shark On the Yemeni island of Socotra, sometimes called the "Galapagos Islands" of the Indian Ocean for its rich biodiversity.

India’s navy sails into history with stitched vessel on ocean voyage

Named Kaundinya, after a legendary Indian mariner, its 20m long hull is sewn together with coconut coir rope rather than nailed.

Number of sea-floor animals down by nearly 40% in Pacific deep-sea mining zone: Study

The study probed the impact of deep-sea mining - an emerging industry - on biodiversity. Deep-sea habitats play a crucial role in the climate system.

Ocean activist dodging Japanese arrest vows at COP30 to take on deep-sea mining, krill industry

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, attends an interview with Reuters onboard his ship, while he attends the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil November 12, 2025. REUTERS/Anderson Coelho

New research shows how seabed mining disrupts the food web

Activists take part at a "Look Down action" rally to stop deep sea mining outside the European Parliament, in Brussels, in 2023.

Underwater ‘human habitat’ aims to allow researchers to make weeklong dives

An interior view of the bedroom of the Vanguard subsea human habitat displayed in a warehouse.

NUS-OceanX expedition observes rare deep-sea life in natural habitat

OceanX-NUS research team members Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum senior research fellow Dr Jose Mendoza, Tropical Marine Science Institute marine biology and ecology laboratory head Dr Tan Koh Siang, OceanX science programme director Mattie Rodrigue, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum advisor Prof Peter Ng and OceanX founder and co-CEO Mark Dalio, together with the OceanXplorer scientific vessel at Marina at Keppel Bay on Oct 29, 2025.

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