Without the ocean, life on Earth would not have even been possible. All life originally came from the sea and it was roughly 1 billion years after life first appeared that the first land-dwelling ...

Ocean health is moving into a danger zone, with rampant human-caused carbon dioxide emissions having already pushed ocean ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

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Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...

Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

Piping plovers are also probably the best known of the federally endangered or threatened animal and plant species in Connecticut. There are others.

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Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.