Shampoo chemicals called polyquaterniums stick to tiny aquatic animals. They slow swimming and feeding, risking ecosystems ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Swimmer’s itch is uncomfortable and annoying. Ron Reimink spent 30 years trying to eradicate it. Then one day, he realized he ...

Lakes are essential to ecosystems, providing freshwater, supporting biodiversity and offering crucial habitat for fish and ...

If the tire wear particles end up in freshwater ecosystems, the pollutants are leached out there. A new review article in the ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

Food webs are ecological networks of consumption interactions, including the relationships between different trophic levels such as primary producers, herbivores, predators and decomposers.

A new IAEA coordinated research project (CRP) will investigate the impact of nutrient pollution from land-based sources on coastal eutrophication and the formation of harmful algal blooms.

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

Despite being called chestnuts, water chestnuts are actually a type of vegetable. Here are 5 benefits of water chestnuts, plus how to use them.

In general, the same principles and standards are used for aquatic animal husbandry. Animal care and husbandry tasks will include regular water quality and life support system assessments, ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...