Engineers and coastal planners are increasingly focused on a deceptively simple idea: using ocean water more intelligently so it solves multiple problems instead of creating new ones. The phrase ...

For centuries, humans have struggled to study the vast, deep, and often inaccessible regions of the ocean. Traditional research vessels and satellites provide valuable data, but they have limitations.

Proposed “solutions” to mounting plastic waste in the ocean continue to border on the absurd — suggesting that banning straws, bags and other consumer products offers an answer. While these policies ...