It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

Recognized by UNESCO for its incredible biodiversity, this place is home to species that exist only on these islands.

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...

According to U.S. Civil Air Patrol, radar data shows the plane quickly slowing down and losing altitude, but it still isn’t ...

Officials in Hawaii are urging the public to be careful after a highly venomous snake was found on a Hilo beach last week.

Sunscreens are increasingly present in the ocean, but much about their impact on marine life remains poorly understood.