Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in coral bleaching, according to a new study.

The breeding season of some seabirds in Arctic regions takes place earlier as a result of the temperature rise caused by climate change, according to a science article with Francisco Ramírez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona –as one of the main authors.

Research shows conservation initiatives often spread like diseases, helping scientists and policymakers design programmes more likely to be taken up.

The white-tailed sea eagle is known for reacting sensitively to disturbances.  

Appearing in everything from sushi rolls to sandwiches, tuna are among the world’s favourite fish. But are our current tuna fishing habits sustainable?

The Marcellus Shale and Point Pleasant-Utica Shale formations of the Appalachian Basin contain an estimated mean of 214 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable continuous resources of natural gas, according to new USGS assessments.

Large vessel traffic in the Boundary Pass shipping lanes, on the east side of Saturna Island, has been steadily increasing for decades—and the impact on endangered southern resident killer whales (SRKW) is causing considerable concern.

Climate change won’t just bring rising sea levels and more extreme weather — it could also impact your dinner plate.

Research by ecologists at the University of Toronto and Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry shows strong evidence in a freshwater lake of “fishing down the food web”.

New seafloor maps show for the first time the course of ancient ice masses. They show how they shaped essential habitat for the western Gulf of Alaska’s abundant fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.