Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! It looks like we won’t be seeing a merger between Shell and BP just yet, as Shell denies that it is looking to take over its British rival. This week’s heat ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Ships traveling through shallow waters trigger methane emissions from seafloor sediments, increasing greenhouse gas releases.

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Instead of seashells, beachgoers along the Texas coast are finding sticky black blobs underfoot. Natural tar balls are ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when ...

Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...

La Jolla resident Una Keyes Davis was inducted into the U.S. Tennis Association of New England Hall of Fame on June 8 after a ...

Oregon is poised to become a center of wave energy technology development. Oregon completed construction on the largest wave energy testing center on the planet in the spring of 2025. The PacWave ...

Although coral reefs only cover 1% of the ocean floor they sustain a quarter of marine life and ... The film travels to Fiji, home to Cloudbreak, widely considered the most perfect wave on Earth ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.