It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food source for many sea creatures and produce almost half the oxygen we breathe.

Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art ...

How would our planet physically react to a future asteroid strike? Researchers simulated an idealised collision scenario with a medium-sized asteroid using a state-of-the-art climate model.

Sam Wells believes we may have been too quick to jump to conclusions about the proliferation of jellyfish blooms ...

A naturalist, environmental educator, wilderness adventurer and artist, Kim McNett’s creativity is a melding of scientific ...

Gear up for fossil fun at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s “Cruisin’ Deep Time” Talk and Book Signing on Thursday, Feb ...