Marcella Boehler is an editor with The Outlaw Ocean Project. This is the third in a six-part series. New installments appear ...

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

Favignana, off the west coast of Sicily, is known for its stone quarries, clear waters and fabled fish. A writer explores by ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

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Apples are losing their crunch, tomatoes are getting sweeter. Beer, cheese and ham are being hit too. As plants up their ...

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Invasive axis deer have become a widespread problem, even in the state of Hawaii. Authorities are attempting to mitigate the ...