To learn about how polar ice sheets melted during an ancient era, scientists examined fossil coral reefs in the tropics.

Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is ...

Geoscientists Professor Anne Bernhardt of Freie Universität Berlin and PD Dr. Wolfgang Schwanghart of the University of ...

With coral reefs and sinkholes, shipwrecks and submerged hotels, the sea is brimming with scenery that even landlubbers will ...

Friday Harbor on San Juan Island exists as a blissful anomaly in our hyper-connected world—a community where nature sets the ...

San Juan Island National Historical Park commemorates the Pig War—possibly history’s most peculiar international conflict, triggered by the shooting of a pig in 1859 and resolved without human ...

Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC-Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a ...

Emissions of hydrogen sulfide raise health concerns in communities near California's largest lake, researchers say.

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture, and red-eared sliders require a ...

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest ...