Flocean, a Norwegian company, is set to open the world’s first commercial-scale subsea desalination plant, an approach that ...

Young cacao trees stand in an unlikely spot on the northeastern slopes of the Waianae Range, growing on a windswept point overlooking Oahu’s North Shore.

We humans are a delicate bunch. We don’t have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

Scientists have long assumed the deep-sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three locations on the ...

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton ...

Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorded plant species. “She’s one of the greatest ...

Tiny fragments of microplastics—from clothes, car tires, packaging, and other sources—slip through most water filters. But at a water treatment plant on the coast in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where ...

Ken Buesseler is getting ready to attend his third international climate summit, on behalf of ocean science. Buesseler is a Senior Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and next week ...