The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) upcoming exhibit Redwoods of the Sea: Life in the Channel Islands Kelp Forests featuring images by naturalist ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during ...

Forest bathing dates back to ancient Japanese Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that spirits inhabit natural elements, which can ...

In the quest to understand how and why early humans started walking on two legs, scientists are now looking to chimpanzees ...

Climate change is altering ecosystems around the world. Those changes also come with a financial cost. In this excerpt from our partner Deutshe Welle, or DW’s, Living Planet series, The World’s Host ...

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

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.

"This just reinforces that as birders we never know what we're going to see or find," said cyclist and bird enthusiast Tom Schultz, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He spotted the kelp gull in the ...

Custer Gallatin National Forest is urging the prevention of human-caused fires.Tips for preventing fires include leaving fireworks at home, drowning your campfi ...

Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new study has found.