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.

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.

Bladder cancer claims 220,000 lives globally each year, with symptoms sometimes mistaken for other conditions such as kidney stones.