On a warm morning at Matemwe, a small crowd gathers behind a rope barrier as the sand begins to tremble. A tiny head pushes through a soft mound of earth, then another, and another. Within minutes, ...

National Geographic photographer Josh Cogan captures the quiet power of Hawaii’s ocean life, revealing how resilience shows ...

An international team led by Covadonga Orejas, a researcher at the Gijón Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of ...

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry's new technology could bring ...

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry’s new technology could bring ...

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...

There's more to South Padre Island than pristine beaches, warm sunshine and that laissez-faire island vibe. The island, ...

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.

Endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles have begun arriving at Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, the world's largest rookery, for ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around ...