Tag: marine science

The nodules have been growing, in utter blackness and near-total silence, for millions of years. Each one started as a ...

Taryn Foster believes Australia’s dying coral reefs can still be rescued—if she can speed up efforts to save them. For ...

It’s clear that Hunga involved an unusually explosive recipe that may not be easily replicated. For about a month, the ...

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant ...

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound ...

In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous white vessel, ...

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Pushed by climate change, almost every ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or ...