Isotopes of atmospheric water leave fingerprints that can improve weather modeling.

Global study of more than 23,000 marine mollusk species projects major shifts in body size by 2100 — including surprising growth in some animals and ocean regions.

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.

A new study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows that nearly 23% of short-finned pilot whales that stranded over 13 years in the main Hawaiian Islands ingested several pounds of plastic ropes, netting, fishing gear and plastic bags that were discarded in the ocean.

Across the U.S., tech companies have courted backlash for using polluting gas generators to power massive new data centers.

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.

As one moves north, Maine’s kelp forests are being overtaken by dense mats of carpet-like turf algae.