Palau, a tiny island nation in Micronesia, is famous for its mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving ...

This freaky black spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was spotted on Google Earth. Located in the South Pacific about 4,000 miles from Australia, it's just .1 square miles in size. What is it ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

The first I heard of the Lost Coast Scenic Drive in Northern California was two days before we arrived. I had heard it was an ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit the Earth – they shape it. These “animal architects” literally move their ...

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

The triennial has a mixture of immersive and conversational work. Some works of art are as small — flowers spread across the ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...