More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Freshwater and coastal waters may cover just a small portion of the planet, but they turn out to be powerful contributors to nitrogen fixation, a natural process essential to life on Earth.

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The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.

Open wide! The gaping gob of a pelican eel can expand into a voluminous sac for trapping elusive prey in the dark ocean depths.

Laguna Beach leaders ask for research on making its last 1.5 miles of coastal waters a no-take zone The waters off of Twin Points in Laguna Beach in 2015.

The neighbors of Cabuyal Beach won a battle to ensure that the maritime-terrestrial zone (ZMT) of that beach remains public. Costa Rica’s maritime-terrestrial zone is a 200-meter wide strip that ...

Currently, more than two billion people live in or near-coastal zones at the ocean-land interface with almost a billion more living in adjacent low-lying coastal areas. These areas and populations are ...

Science & Environment How tiny fossils in Oregon’s coastal marshes could help us prepare for big earthquakes By Jes Burns (OPB) June 27, 2024 6 a.m.

UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes ...

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now succeeded for the first time in investigating ...