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A fishing town on Oregon's South Coast attempts to rise above toxic algae and a volatile ocean economy.

As many federal workers are approaching a payday with no pay, they're asking relatives for loans and Congress for relief. Meanwhile, the Coast Guard in Boston is getting help from a food pantry.

Scientists credit the crab and oyster industries with noticing a change in oxygen levels in coastal Pacific waters.

The ripple effects from their growing population threaten fisheries and the entire coastal food web — but scientists are figuring out how to fight them.

The Trump administration has proposed radically expanding offshore oil drilling, but Florida's waters are "off the table." Leaders in California, New York, South Carolina and elsewhere noticed.

Major Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm's arrival.

Once a rare refuge in war-torn Gaza, the beach offered relief and a glimpse of freedom. Now, even the sea is off-limits — as Israel bans access to the coast, warning it could cost lives.

A damaged tanker breaks apart off the coast of Spain, spilling several tons of oil into the ocean. Salvage crews work to contain the spill, but with 70,000 tons of oil aboard, officials fear an environmental disaster worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska. Jerome Socolovsky reports.

The Navy is defending its practice of inviting civilian visitors on warships to sit in control positions during exercises. Officials do admit that civilians may have been a distraction aboard the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville during the sub's fatal surfacing maneuver last Friday. The sub collided with a Japanese fishing trawler, sinking the ship. Nine people are still missing and presumed drowned in the incident off the coast of Hawaii. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

A New Zealand air force plane returned safely today to Christchurch after retrieving four ill Americans and seven other U.S. staffers from a frigid research station near Antarctica's coast. A second perilous rescue mission to the bottom of the world is now underway. An eight-seat Twin Otter plane has landed at the South Pole to evacuate a sick American doctor. Antarctica's harsh, dark winter conditions usually preclude flights in or out. NPR's Richard Harris reports.