The near-bottom water on the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional marine ecosystem.

Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms.

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is.

Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.

New laboratory research shows that when viruses attack a species that forms toxic algal blooms, those thick, blue-green slicks that choke waterways and that threaten ecosystems, drinking water, and public health, what results might be even worse than before the infection.

Pink salmon, Purple Asian clams, marine invertebrates that form spaghetti-like colonies and a nematode worm that causes extensive deaths of trees are among the new entries in experts’ watchlist of invasive non-native species that could threaten Great Britain in the next 10 years.

In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape.

Falling vulture numbers in the Americas could have serious implications for public health and ecosystems, new research has found.

Scientists have launched an interactive global map to show the migratory patterns of more than 100 marine species in an effort to protect at-risk wildlife.  

Study models spatial patterns of “grazing halos” around reefs.