C? Scientists warn that a collapse of the Gulf Stream — part of a vital ocean system known as the AMOC — could flip Britain ...

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading ...

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become oceanic deserts, devoid of the usual aquatic biodiversity. Though hypoxic zones can occur naturally ...