There are estimated to be more than 15,000 species of bivalves, which include clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and mollusks.
The enormous floating berg, called A83, has a total area of 146 sq miles (380 sq km) and is around 490 feet (150 metres) ...
If you Google “Susan Gibson, singer songwriter,” it’s a good bet that, within the first or second sentence of all the ...
Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s ...
Although dengue outbreaks cannot be prevented, it is possible to anticipate them. Scientists have recently identified a global climate indicator that may help improve predictions about the magnitude ...
There is a dark and spine-tingling part in the rich tapestry of Earth’s wildlife that is dedicated to some of the most ...
This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The northeast Pacific ...
Research suggests that plastic pollution must be reduced by at least 5% every year to make progress towards UN targets by the end of the century.
Iron-rich dust feeds phytoplankton. They are a key form of life in the Southern Ocean, which acts as a climate shock absorber ...
At 80 miles across, Thwaites is the world's widest glacier. It has been nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier" for the catastrophic ...
History is a funny thing. Time flows ever onward, and things happen, sometimes at the same time. And with how disconnected things can be from one another, be it by location, culture, or simply ...
Antarctica’s vast expanse of sea ice regulates Earth’s temperature, as the white surface reflects the Sun’s heat back into the atmosphere.