Scientists studying dolphins dining off the California coastline have found that the marine food web is starting to look a little threadbare. The length of food chains in that web appears to have gotten shorter in response to environmental changes — such as those caused by El Niño events.

Disaster funds are reserved for single events, and storms that collectively cause much damage aren't often individually large enough to count as disasters.

‘Catastrophic breeding event’ leads to demands for a marine protected area to be set up in East Antarctica

"All it would take is one or two big storms and these houses you see behind me would be gravely at risk."

There’s a giant hole in Antarctica and scientists aren’t sure why. The hole, which was detected about a month ago, is roughly 30,000 square miles or the size of the state of Maine. It's the largest hole spotted in the Weddell Sea since the 1970s, scientists say.

Waters were expected to reach their highest levels Monday night and into Tuesday.

Cleanup and recovery from the recent storm that battered the North Slope coastline may carry a price tag exceeding $10 million.

I notice fluorescent glowing in the dark: happens to be the tomcods I caught the other day.

An invasion of potentially fatal jellyfish-like creatures on Britain's shores is the biggest ever recorded in the UK.  The P...

Zoom in on this supposed image of sheep on a hillside and you'll be in for quite the surprise.

California sea lions are rare but occasionally show up in Southeast Alaska and have been documented in other parts of Alaska as well.

Plastic waste in the ocean is now so widespread it is polluting remote ice floes in the Arctic, scientists have discovered.

If you’re living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta a hundred years from now, it’s going to be hot and wet, according to a new study by scientists at the International Arctic Research Center, an institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

According to Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, approximately 400 gallons of an oily water mix had been recovered from the Port of Valdez as of Saturday night.

Researchers from the University of Washington used 80 years of data to figure out how much warming fish could withstand. They discovered fish in the tropics are already living in water at the upper end of their threshold.

In a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico — making it one of the costliest storms to hit the island’s agriculture industry.

Hurricane Maria barreled through the islands that curve through the Caribbean.

Scientists are at a loss to explain one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.