Along the warm waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast lives a creature so gentle that sailors once mistook it for a mermaid. Slow ...

A large marine heatwave is gripping the waters off California, pushing sea surface temperatures roughly 3 to 4 degrees ...

Researchers at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability have developed the most high-resolution statewide maps ...

The critical question is not whether this transformation will happen, but how it will be shaped. In a region where tourism ...

Researchers from the University of Maine, in partnership with the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), are analyzing ...

The two are part of the Institute of Environment’s efforts to expand research on the Everglades, Biscayne Bay and other South Florida’s coastal ecosystems. The project received $11.5 million in funds.

A new study of shallow-water ecosystems estimates that, by 2100, climate change and coastal land usage could result in significant shrinkage of coral habitats, tidal marshes, and mangroves, while ...

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 ...

Communities dependent on Canada's blue economy will face growing challenges to their livelihoods as climate change ...

Ocean ecosystems form a huge active carbon sink and play a critical role in the global carbon cycle and climate. Blue carbon refers to the carbon captured and stored by marine ecosystems, including ...

Oil spill, gas flare and deforestation continue to pose environmental hazards, as well as worsen economic misfortunes for the people of the Niger Delta ...