Microplastics are flooding the Gulf of Mexico, threatening marine life and seafood security, new research shows.

But it was so enormous and so weird and gorgeous. It’s like suddenly you’re on another planet,” a witness said.

The research team — Justin Baumann, an assistant professor of environmental studies, and his four Bates summer interns — had ...

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From 1996–2021 at least 218 whales were confirmed entangled off Mexico’s Pacific and Baja California coasts. Humpbacks were the most commonly entangled whales, but gray, sperm, Bryde’s and fin whales ...

As summer continues to heat up and tourists flock to the California coast, beachgoers should be on the lookout for sea lions sickened by a recent outbreak of kidney disease.

(Reuters) -Most Gulf equities rose on Wednesday, tracking a global stock market rally after a softer U.S. inflation data raised hopes of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September, while mixed earnings ...

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

Feral hogs with "slushie-blue" innards turned up in Monterey earlier this year—and not for the first time. A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California.