Add another item to the ever-growing list of the dangerous impacts of global climate change: Warming oceans are leading to an increase in the harmful neurotoxicant methylmercury in popular seafood, including cod, Atlantic bluefin tuna and swordfish, according to research led by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).

It was an audacious idea: To send an unmanned saildrone on a 13,670-nautical-mile journey around Antarctica alone, at the mercy of the most hostile seas on the planet. In winter.  

Recovery of big sagebrush populations after fire is inhibited by the loss of adult plants and the limited ability of new seedlings to survive or reproduce.

Canada has committed to protecting nearly 20 per cent of the country’s landscape by 2020.

Growing up in Idaho, far from any coastline, Danielle Claar says her curiosity about the underwater world was sparked as a teenager on a scuba diving trip with her parents.

Under the watchful eyes of five high-speed cameras, a small, pale-blue bird named Gary waits for the signal to fly.

Trees are seen as saviors in an era of climate change. 

A phenomenon that makes coral spawn more than once a year is improving the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

Ocean acidification is bad news for shellfish, making it harder for them to form their calcium-based shells. 

Drone footage has shown never-before seen behaviour of two leopard seals sharing food.