Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.

The manatee was discovered by chance when city surveyors were conducting routine work.

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean 5 million years ago. Turns out that probably didn't happen, but there was still drama aplenty.

On his fifth birthday, I introduced Kane Johnstone to white sharks by taking him on the cage-diving boat I worked on here in Mossel Bay, as a treat. This was back when I was observing white sharks daily for our mark-recapture study, and we had pretty much guaranteed sightings every time we went out.

Shark attacks in 2025 were back to a normal level after a down year in 2024. California continues to overindex in unprovoked attacks, and in 2025 recorded the only shark-related death of the year in the U.S..

Stunning photos illuminate how the Corinth Canal became an engineering marvel—with an unexpected fate.

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees