A tiny algae recently discovered in India is helping to reconstruct how the oceans moved millions of years ago.

Didymosphenia geminata — didymo for short — also has another, much less scientific, nickname: rock snot. It seems to be spreading in Michigan waterways.

When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important ...

TACLOBAN CITY—Shellfish harvested from the coastal waters of Leyte are now safe for human consumption after testing negative for paralytic shellfish toxin, commonly known as saxitoxin, the Bureau of ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

The Great Barrier Reef is in such rapid decline that Australian researchers are now trying something that once sounded like science fiction: brightening clouds to cast a protective shade over the ...