For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

It stretches from Europe to North and South America, and is the second largest of the five oceans. The water in the oceans is constantly moving in patterns called currents. As the currents flow ...

The end of the Ordovician, in contrast, was kicked off by the Earth’s thermostat firmly flipping to “cold” – and much like ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

May 22, 2025 — New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely ...