25 May 2023
Trichodesmium, a kind of cyanobacterium that is vital to ocean ecosystems, forms colonies that work together and change shape to get the light and nutrients the microbe needs to grow
6 June 2019
A deep-sea survey has found more tiny particles of plastic far below the surface of the Pacific than floating on its surface, with the highest levels around 300 metres down
14 August 2018
Farmed Atlantic salmon make the local wild salmon population weaker. Making them sterile could work – but there’s a catch
13 June 2018
The loss of Antarctica’s ice has been accelerating ominously since 2012, and could lead to big rises in sea level if the rate of loss keeps increasing
5 June 2018
We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them
21 May 2018
The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
22 March 2018
There's at least four times as much plastic floating in the Pacific as we thought, and a lot of it may have floated over from Japan after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami
7 March 2018
Rising seas are already boosting the flood risk in places like San Francisco, but the problem is even worse than that because land is also subsiding
13 December 2017
A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
23 October 2017
Due to rapidly rising seas, floods that once struck New York City every 500 years will soon hit every five years
