In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald eagle in ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Americans are skeptical of the term environmentalist, so a new report from the aquarium deals with ‘wonder and respect and ...

A team of scientists set out on the research ship Falkor (too) in February for a 35-day expedition off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of subantarctic islands. Their main goal was to use a ...

Animal experts have been on the hunt for a culprit after several people were repeatedly bitten and scratched by the generally ...

The attacks on people in the water are likely the result of a rabies-like condition. Experts sound alarm after sea lion ...

“Light is a critical determinant of animal distributions and behaviors in the ocean. … What happens to that daily game of hide and seek when the animals that need to hide are illuminated by ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

Utter the word ‘California’ and it conjures up images of Universal Studios, Hollywood and glitzy Los Angeles, but it is much ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent. While COVID had our attention, agencies around the world were setting boundaries and officially ...