La Digue, with its pristine beaches, clear waters, and enchanting landscapes, stands as one of Africa’s most beautiful ...

The Marine Invasions Research Lab, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is the nation’s largest program dedicated to monitoring the ocean and coastal regions for invasions by ...

Seaweed farming is a rapidly expanding global industry. As a food resource, it has high nutritional value and doesn't need ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

Attempts to 'refloat' the whales have failed due to poor weather A huge group of false killer whales are expected to be ...

More than 150 false killer whales have washed up on the coast of the Australian island state of Tasmania, with none of them ...

Jonathan the world's oldest tortoise lives a peaceful life on the tropical island of St. Helena with three other giant tortoises.

Conservationists are determined to protect the magnificent rays of the Pacific—whether that’s tracking them with acoustic ...

Alert readers of the print edition noticed a puzzling photo caption in my last column. When writing about gull identification ...

Research suggests that tropical riparian ecosystems – those found along rivers and wetlands – recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...