In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

As one of The Nature Conservancy’s four preserves in the state, Blowing Rocks is the smallest, the busiest and the oldest.

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. But what ...

A large red tide bloom in the Gulf of Mexico is raising ... is subject to factors such as the availability of nutrients and ocean currents. The Florida Department of Health advised coastal ...

Made up of unspecialized cells interspersed with channels and pores, this animal has no digestive system. It does not have a brain or a nervous system, nor does it have a circulatory system or ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information. Red tide has reached the Florida Keys, and counts in Southwest Florida waters have been deadly recently as scientists measured more ...