The blue economy is the "sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods and jobs, and ocean ecosystem health," said the World Bank.

The Blue Ocean Dome at Expo 2025 in Osaka, an immersive pavilion on ocean beauty and fragility. ... The oceans, covering over 70% of our planet, are the foundation of life on Earth.

By forging common rules and investing in ocean stewardship, the world can unlock the blue economy's full potential, securing prosperity and equity while keeping our seas healthy.

Earth is known as the “blue planet,” but a new study published in Nature suggests that our oceans may have once looked green instead of blue. Japanese researchers have found evidence that ...

Nearly every country on Earth has just agreed, on paper, to achieve this bare minimum and protect a third of the ocean (by 2030 through marine protected areas, under the High Seas Treaty agreed in ...

Under Hawaii's warming blue ocean, many once-colorful coral reefs are bleached white. ... 84% of coral reefs are now under heat stress that can cause bleaching. When the ocean warms, ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Using computer models of ocean tides over the past 21,000 years— back to the peak of the last ice age—we found that each of these mud patches formed at different times.