Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

Essential functions at the federal Great Lakes research lab that monitors toxic algae blooms and helps forecast Michigan weather have been “crippled” by the Trump administration’s wave of federal ...

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

One of the rarest species on Earth, the Devils Hole pupfish, came close to extinction in recent months, thanks to an earthquake 500 miles from their deep desert cave. Now, worried scientists and ...

Starting this month, you may see a small fan boat near the shoreline of our local lakes. The Catawba-Wateree Water Management ...

Seagrass die-offs in Florida often occur when nutrient pollution (phosphorus and nitrogen) flows into estuaries from farms, ...

Brown pelicans across Southern California are filling up wildlife rehabilitation centers, either sick or starving—a dual ...

Brown pelicans are filling up Southern California wildlife rehabilitation centers as scores of the seabirds have been found sick and starving. Many of the pelicans have been poisoned in a major toxic ...

Biologists are working to restore the population of an endangered species in Death Valley after a sudden decline attributed ...

Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...

Sea slugs, such as Elysia chlorotica, are small marine creatures that produce energy from sunlight - just like plants.