Japan has announced it will no longer hunt whales in the Southern Ocean.

That's the amount of junked plastic around the world that has never been recycled.

Scientists are deploying underwater robots to prepare for NZ's next big marine disaster.

COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.

Sir Peter Blake's son-in-law explains the late adventurer's legacy.

Here are four possible scenarios.

DoC has taken for further study a female bronze whaler washed up on the North Shore .

A new study aims to trace Auckland's microplastic pollution back to their source.

Fisherman who saved toddler from the ocean at Matata Beach first thought it was a doll.

These Hawaiian sea safaris are more Blue Planet than Life Aquatic.

Call for urgent action as findings show more heat stored than previously thought.

"A lot of people imagine underwater is this really quiet place, but it isn't."

Researchers are warning rubbish is becoming a "growing hazard" at New Zealand's beaches.

A relaxing 5-night cruise to Tasmania has ended with a man behind bars.

Northland surfer Andrew Brough speaks about the moment a great white shark sunk its teeth into his body.

Royal couple to help clear cigarette butts from Melbourne beach.

A pod of killer whales have been spotted in the waters of Wellington's Lyall Bay.

From next week if you look into Auckland's harbour you will see strange floating objects.

COMMENT: Plastics are affecting turtle populations but probably not in the way you think.

The explanation isn't overly scientific either, NIWA says.

Norman and climate activist Sara Howell were discharged without conviction.

Young Kiwi leaders and Hawaiian Airline staff clean up rubbish from around the Pacific.

Floating rubbish collector creator hopes to clean up Pacific Ocean's garbage island.

UQ Global Change Institute Director Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg explains significance of new research that has found evidence to suggest the 2016 coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef also affected deep reefs. Credit: UQ Global Change Institute

Climate change may threaten even the darkest depths of world-renowned Great Barrier Reef.

The floating boom was being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Top NZ scientist dismayed at allegations of Japanese whaling in new Antarctic reserve.

The Viaduct Harbour will receive their much awaited Seabin - the first one to be installed in New Zealand. / The Seabin project

Life could exist on the huge number of "water worlds" in our solar system.

Century-old shipwreck revealed by most complex seafloor survey ever undertaken in NZ.