Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex ...

Imagine a fishing boat leaving the shores of one nation, its nets cast wide, unaware that the ripples of its catch will reach ...

If you close your eyes and picture Hawaii, you probably imagine lush green mountains, vibrant flowers, and the melodic song ...

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As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Coral reefs around the world are in the middle of the worst mass bleaching event in history that started in January 2023. New data released this week shows that 84% of coral reefs have been bleached ...

The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and for mapping ...

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

The beach vitex is a western Pacific plant that is a major threat to coastal ecosystems and has heavily appeared on more than 700 locations on North Carolina beaches, and ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

An international team of researchers was stunned after examining a never-before-seen section of the Antarctic seafloor.