One person is dead after a kayak flipped over in the Delaware River. It happened early Wednesday afternoon in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, near the Bushkill Boat Launch. A park ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

A new handheld microscope lets scientists monitor coral health in real time, underwater, without harming reefs.

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...

Salt water actually changes the properties of human skin in ways that explain why your face feels like leather after a day at ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

The blooms showed up locally in recent weeks. Microscopic algae blooms have turned the ocean off Ventura into a sort of brown soup in recent weeks but may not stick around much longer.