Have you felt disgust when taking a walk along the riverside or plunging into the sea to escape the summer heat, only to spy a used wet wipe floating along the surface? Or shock at finding out that animals have died choking ...
How much microplastic truly ends up in the seafood on our plates? The answer varies significantly because there are no standardized analytical procedures in food monitoring to quantify the amount of tiny plastic particles ...
How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ecologists argue that ...
A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry finds that efforts to eradicate invasive mollusks in Idaho's Snake River may kill off valuable freshwater species.
The story of Great Lakes whitefish is not a happy one, state fish biologist Stephen Lenart warned on July 10, but it needs to be told as their numbers decline.
Exciting new research is investigating how boobies (birds of the genus Sula) may be able to reduce the potentially lethal impact of their high-speed vertical dives by creating a cushion of "supercavitation" bubbles upon impact ...
As some of the worst fires in Los Angeles history swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods in January 2025, Rosi Dagit, who was herself evacuated from her home in Topanga, couldn't stop thinking about ...
The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave their mark.
Millions of eared grebes visit Great Salt Lake to rest and refuel en route to their winter homes on the Pacific Coast each fall, along with 250 other bird species throughout the year. That's about 10 million individual birds ...
Shellfish beds or reefs, formed by mussels and oysters, have declined worldwide. Sterre Witte, who conducted her Ph.D. research at the NIOZ Coastal Systems department, has investigated how we can counteract this decline.
