This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

While millions watch videos of houses collapsing into the ocean, residents of NC’s Outer Banks look for ways to save a way of life.

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert ...

Around 115 million years ago, the seas off northern Australia were home to a gigantic ancestor of Jaws. Fossils of this ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, they become more corrosive. That's happening faster here.

Environmental advocates warn oil leaks or spills could cause irreparable damage to the unique and understudied ecosystem.They ...