Wedgefishes and guitarfishes are among the ocean’s most misunderstood and overlooked animals. They are ancient, gentle, shark-like rays that glide quietly through the shallow coastal waters. Although ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...

Human activity is responsible for slowing Earth’s spin and making days longer, according to a new study. View on euronews ...

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...

Artificial light at night, or ALAN, is one of the most pervasive byproducts of coastal urbanization. Streetlights, ...

As the United States continues to lead global oil and gas production—accounting for roughly 20% of worldwide output in 2024—understanding how different extraction methods affect ecosystems has never ...

Streams influenced by both conventional and unconventional oil and gas development show shifts in benthic macroinvertebrate communities, underscoring the sensitivity of freshwater ecosystems to ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

For decades, desalination has been pitched as the ultimate solution to water scarcity. With oceans covering more than seventy ...

Earth's rotation is slowing down faster since the late Pliocene. Days are therefore getting longer by more than a millisecond per 100 years – with consequences.