Located at the Fort Ross State Historic Park within The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, the Fort Ross Conservancy works to promote coastal preservation, conservation, education and ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

Cold stressing and stunning are potentially life-threatening conditions caused by sudden or prolonged drops in water ...

Why do environmental researchers think “we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup efforts”?

While Russia and China are publicly singled out, states never mentioned by French authorities, such as the UAE, Israel and the US, pose a real threat to national sovereignty, experts say ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

A new study led by researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found the marine creatures remain virtually identical throughout the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans.

The farthest north the waved albatross had been seen was Costa Rica, so what was it doing off the coast of California?

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

Fish oil’s cancer-fighting reputation may hinge on a little-known gene. Researchers discovered that omega-3s like EPA and DHA help curb colorectal cancer only when the enzyme ALOX15 is present.

Food chains in the coral reefs of the Caribbean are up to 70% shorter today than in the past, and fish living there have a ...