marine science

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s…

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver…

In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous…

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Roswell Schaeffer Sr.…

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Pushed by climate…

Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing on a pier by the sea, grasping, somewhat inexplicably, a bowling ball.…

Earth's atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life…

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs…

But this chemical defense creates a big problem for sea cucumbers: They need to avoid killing themselves with their…

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Vancouver, British…