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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

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Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
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Seagrass and Seagrass Beds

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A photo of a squid using bioluminescence to hide in the deep sea.
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Bioluminescence

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health

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Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.
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The Arctic and The Antarctic

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Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.
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Jellyfish and Comb Jellies

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A Mesozoic Ocean scene
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Ocean Through Time

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Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface
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Giant Squid

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Great hammerhead in Bimini, Bahamas.
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Sharks

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A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Ocean Acidification

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Coral scientist Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a deep-sea coral bed off the coast of Hawaii.
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Deep-sea Corals

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Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant. Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
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Climate Change

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