A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

One of many events, “A Little Fiber Fest: From Sheep to Cloth,” is part of Whidbey Earth and Ocean Month, which is sponsored ...

Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea otters are marine mammals that are larger than you think. These beautiful ...

A new study from the University of Maine's Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) and Darling Marine Center is helping to ...

Help save the Earth by replacing half your lawn and/or non-native plants with native species, even in containers, plus a list ...

And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by marine ecosystems. Byestimates According to marine biologists, the biomass of microorganisms is about 9 ...

The primal forces that shape our planet, Fire, water, wind, and earth, can also bring chaos, ruin, and sometimes, awe-inspiring spectacles.

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Largely unregulated and widely debated, carbon credits have become popular this century as a way ... These marine organisms act like plants on land, absorbing carbon dioxide from the ocean just as ...