ocean science

To encouraging chants by young campers and dignitaries alike, a sea turtle named Pancake made its way down a beach beside New York's Coney Island boardwalk on Thursday, July 23 and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Between nutrient pollution, climate-fueled severe storms, and warming ocean waters, our estuaries are at risk. But restoring wild oyster habitat could help.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare is calling a stranding event on Cape Cod the largest known mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins documented in the Northeast.

A regional seafood industry collaborative has been awarded a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Trump administration has tried three times to defund the Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Alvin, the deep ocean submersible known for exploring the wreck of the Titanic, is surveying two other famous shipwrecks – Shackleton's Quest and Scott's Terra Nova.

As seals return to the waters off the Cape and Islands, white sharks aren’t far behind. And, it turns out, they aren’t the only seal-hunting sharks in our waters.

Shark researchers will be turning their attention to a different part of the Cape this summer, in an effort to learn more about juvenile white sharks.

Scientists and fishermen convened at Coonamessett Farm, in Falmouth, to share research funded through NOAA’s Scallop Research Set-Aside Program.

As seasonal restaurants begin to unshutter for the spring, oyster shell recycling starts back up in Wellfleet this week.