Living organisms can be divided into producers, consumers, and more, depending on what they eat. Producers create their own ...

Before you release balloons at a graduation or memorial, you’ll want to know about the new fines now in effect.

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In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

New genomic analysis of the golden sweeper has shown that it uses its prey (bioluminescent ostracods) to obtain its ability ...

After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

On a calm summer's morning in southern Australia, the water can look deceptively clear, until you see thousands of gelatinous ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Democracy sure is fab. But it can also be a war machine, wreaking senseless, hideous destruction. The very thing that ...

This fall, the Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab settled into its new home within the Department of Biology. Previously located at ...

Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere ...

The Great Lakes and their fisheries are, today, relatively healthy. We tend to take that for granted. We shouldn’t. As ...