Just beyond where conventional scuba divers can go is an area of the ocean that still is largely unexplored. In waters this deep — about 100 to at least 500 feet below the surface — little to no light breaks through.

Small animals such as weasels, mink and chipmunks are using highway medians as food sources, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists.

Nothing can threaten a velvety green lawn like vagabond dandelions—but it isn’t all bad, says a University of Alberta gardening expert.

Right whales don’t sing—or do they?

An incredibly complex system lives beneath our feet, transporting metals to Earth’s crust and undergoing a myriad of chemical reactions that influence our daily lives.

Helping preserve rare, threatened amphibians, scientists at Washington State University are launching a $1.4 million effort to unobtrusively find and study them through the environmental traces of their DNA.

A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) clarifies what influence major currents in the North Atlantic have on sea level along the northeastern United States.

Genetic testing has determined that the stranded whale is actually a different species, also very rare, called Hubbs' beaked whale.

Malaria parasites develop faster in mosquitoes at lower temperatures than previously thought, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Exeter.

The more naturally verdant an area is, the more likely it will contribute to the general health of the habitats and the organisms in and around it.