A freshwater ecologist explains why the mountain is less a postcard and more a slow-leaking, bug-monitored water machine.

In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

Scientists have discovered alien-like brine pools deep beneath the ocean, forming dense, hypersaline lakes on the seafloor. These extreme environments, lethal to most marine life due to high salinity ...