marine science

Right now, the Antarctic and the waters around it are surprisingly free of invasive species. According to new research, however, that situation might change…

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Saikou Demba was a young man starting out in the…

Astonishingly, however, by 2010 global coral coverage was roughly back to pre-1998 levels. “That’s good news,” says Souter. “Even though reefs got knocked…

A sea otter is a ravenous ecosystem engineer of the highest order. To stay warm and healthy, they eat a quarter of their body weight a day, repeatedly diving…

“It's a complex mixture of chemistry, biology, and physics,” says Scripps oceanographer Grant Deane, co-principal investigator of Soars. “That's one of the…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Grant Downie had been out of the Pacific Ocean for about 10 minutes…

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A third of shark and ray species have been overfished to near…

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.While trekking through the Peruvian rain forest, an eight-hour…

Then came the pigs. Yuk looped in a team at the Mayo Clinic that was better equipped to operate on large animals. The team wanted to avoid relying on the…

Medici’s death was the first shark fatality in Massachusetts since 1936. “We’re on a trajectory, right?” says Doyle. “It was three bites in 14 months.” After…