On the windswept coasts of Oregon and California, there lives an unassuming little plant that can withstand salty blasts that kill its inland counterparts.

Relatively few people have been to the Arctic, and even fewer have set foot in Antarctica. 

Somersett, a short drive from downtown Reno, Nevada, is a peaceful place where homes with sweeping, high-desert views line cul-de-sacs and roads meander through shrubland, trailheads, and golf courses.

The common octopus is a warm water species that usually lives in the temperate waters of the Mediterranean.

Many of the Antarctic’s smallest inhabitants have evolved over millions of years so their body fluids are similar in chemical composition to that of sea water.

Southern California is emerging from yet another round of wildfires just as the wildfire season gets underway.

Ocean plastic pollution is accidentally on the menu for southern giant petrel chicks.

While long-term data shows that Hawaiʻi is getting drier overall, short, intense downpours that cause sudden, dangerous flash floods are getting stronger in the islands, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

A new project led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict how rising seas and stronger storms could threaten coastal freshwater supplies and ecosystems.

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that shapes regional climates and distributes ocean nutrients also serves as a control knob to help regulate temperatures across the planet, new research has found.