On a balmy Friday morning in mid-July, a research team of five from Bates scrambled across the slippery rocks of Cape Neddick, searching the rockweed-coated landscape for the shiny, dark, ...

When she was young, Pratt spent summers in Maine playing in a freshwater lake, which likely began her love of ecology and all things aquatic. During college, graduate school and postdoctoral work, her ...

Exploring the tidepools at Rialto Beach is an adventure that brings you up close with some of nature’s most fascinating marine life.... The post What to know before exploring the Rialto Beach ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back, celebrating the most extraordinary life with which we share this planet while spotlighting the many threats they face. Take a look at some of this year’s ...

On Wednesday, community members can learn about marine vegetation monitoring in Puget Sound off Mukilteo and Hat Island.

To help save the endangered black abalone, scientists are relocating some of the marine snails from the Channel Islands to ...

A research collaboration between eco-engineers Artecology and the University of Plymouth has confirmed just that, that ...

For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began. Early attempts at team living began to stick, paving the way for the ...

Non-model organisms are organisms that have not been selected by the research community for extensive study either for historic reasons, or because they lack the features that make model organisms ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...

Singapore will implement coastal protection measures like storm surge barriers and raised platforms at Greater Southern Waterfront and Changi by the 2030s to combat rising sea levels. Changi Beach ...

A mysterious marine epidemic has erased billions of sea stars from North America’s Pacific coast. After more than a decade of unanswered questions, scientists have traced the disaster to a single ...