There’s a place in Colorado where the landscape is so otherworldly that you half expect to see a Mars rover trundling across the horizon. Star Dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park near Mosca rises ...

The Pacific Ocean is not known for its flexibility, and Battery Point Lighthouse in Crescent City operates entirely on the ocean’s terms. If you want to visit this historic lighthouse, you’ll need to ...

The ocean has always felt like home to Claire Narida Charanachitta. Long before she spoke at international forums or produced award-winning documentaries, the Thai teenager spent her childhood ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

In an unprecedented heat wave, we check in on the newts, the bears, the mussels, and all those flowers that just woke up for spring.

Deep-sea coral reef discovered off the coast of Naples with an intact ecosystem that has scientists amazed today ...

Scientists surveying marine life near Rotuma in the South Pacific caught something unexpected on camera: a day octopus appeared to punch a grouper fish on the seafloor. As strange as it sounds, this ...

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Li’l Friday features dozens of ways for people to enjoy the weekend via theater, music, art, culinary happenings and more.

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...

Almost all marine mammals are carnivores: Think orcas, whales, dolphins, and even walruses and otters. Even baleen whales eat ...

Japan is combining education, culture and technology to encourage reciprocal relationships between coastal communities and ...