For nearly half a century, Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman has been diving Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain ...

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ecosystems.

As the plants grow, they pull carbon out of the air through the process of photosynthesis. Because their decomposition has ...

Kelp forests are underwater thickets of algae that keep the world’s oceans rich with biodiversity. And scientists just offered a strong financial argument for keeping them healthy.

The algae have poisoned more than 1,737 square miles of the waters, littering beaches with carcasses and ravaging an area ...

Marine life may be more resilient to climate stress than previously thought, thanks to shifting oxygen levels in coastal ...

The most intense warming, which occurred in the North Atlantic, tropical Pacific, South Pacific and North Pacific, accounted ...

Why has an unprecedented growth of tiny toxic plants been killing marine life en masse along Australia’s southern coastline?

We live during interesting times. The global political climate is worsening, social media has warped our understanding of ...

An intergovernmental report concludes that if the world's wetlands continue to vanish and deteriorate it may equate to tens ...

A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.