The flash mob descended on Brisbane’s city square, wearing double denim and blond wigs in the style of a legendary Australian ...

One of NOAA’s primary ocean-atmosphere models is now projecting that the Niño-3.4 index, the benchmark gauge of El Niño ...

In a dramatic turn of events early Wednesday, Sri Lanka launched a large-scale rescue operation. An Iranian naval frigate had ...

When we see shearwaters washed up dead on beaches, we might think strong winds or a failed migration are to blame. That’s not ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of ...

Despite their flower-inspired name, sea pansies are not plants at all. Purple sea pansies are colonial marine animals in the ...

It looked like something plucked from a fairy tale — a fleshy, violet disc sitting in the sand along the Southern California ...

Sea pansies are purple, fleshy, leaf-shaped marine organisms that live on sandy or muddy sediment. They belong to the genus Renilla and are cnidarians — the same group that includes jellyfish and sea ...

Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometers northeast of Sydney. It's covered in lush forest and ...

South Florida beaches should brace for possible record sargassum year. The brown seaweed is generally safe to touch but best ...

Climate scientist Daniel Swain described this increasingly extreme marine heat wave as an “exceptional event” that’s breaking ...