A long-awaited system of movable floodgates is starting to protect the city from the highest tides.

Many factors affect the flux of carbon into and out of Earth’s oceans, including ocean surface winds.

The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of the Antarctica.

There’ s no longer any doubt — the wolves found in Norway and Sweden today are actually Finnish, according to extensive studies done on their genetic make-up. Humans wiped out Norway’s original wolf population in the wild around 1970.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, which caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.

When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become more frequent over the last 150 years.

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way’s dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. 

When animals catch COVID-19 from humans, new SARS-CoV-2 variants can arise. 

Using artificial intelligence techniques, an international team that included Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers has traced the evolution of coccolithophores, an ocean-dwelling phytoplankton group, over 2.8 million years.

Planting native grasses such as the bioenergy crop switchgrass can restore habitat for birds