The opening of the Erie Canal was touted as an incredible achievement of human ingenuity, a 363-mile engineering marvel built 200 years ago. When Gov. DeWitt Clinton completed his journey from Buffalo ...

A 40-year-old male tourist was swimming and filming about 100m from shore in Hadera off the coast of Israel in April when he was suddenly surrounded by a shiver of dusky sharks, a species generally ...

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed while riding the light rail on Aug. 22. A new butterfly species has been named after Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Carly D. Kenkel has received funding from NSF, NOAA, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Mary Gard ...

The father of four who was killed by sharks while snorkeling solo off the coast of Israel in April was attacked by a school of dusky sharks, which are typically harmless to humans, according to ...