marine science

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an intake canal on…

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints at an even richer past. The…

In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous white vessel, holding a crew of three, was being lowered for a dive when a…

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years old, his father decided it was about time he started learning to…

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Pushed by climate change, almost every part of the ocean is heating up. But off the west coast…

Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing on a pier by the sea, grasping, somewhat inexplicably, a bowling ball. Suddenly you lose your grip and it tumbles down into the waves below with…

Earth's atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there's…

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses…

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Vancouver, British Columbia, is nothing short of a seafood paradise. Situated at the mouth of…

But outside the walls of Warm Springs, so much is beyond the recovery team’s control. By nature, salmon transcend borders and boundaries, which exposes them to a gauntlet of threats. In…