Scientists have been listening to Cross Seamount beaked whales for years—but they’ve never seen one.

The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.

Bird flu has spread so widely that it was always going to make someone seriously sick.

It begins with the melting of a snowball earth, and the rise of algae.

Plastics and metals have made it much easier for invasive species to raft across oceans.

Thiamine, a nutrient no organism can live without, is mysteriously lacking in some marine ecosystems.

You mite not even have heard of them.

The 1989 disaster spilled 11 million gallons of oil into the Alaska’s Prince William Sound, fouling more than a thousand miles of coastline, and killing hundreds of thousands of animals.

The much-hyped Cambrian explosion may have been just one burst in a marathon evolutionary fireworks display.

Chicken can be part of a climate-friendly diet; we’re just eating way too much of it.