Researchers say they have discovered a novel species of comb jelly using video footage, but they couldn’t recover a physical specimen. Is that enough?

The past five years have been the warmest-ever, NASA and NOAA announce.

From missing paychecks to delayed grants to canceled travel, federal research is feeling the sting.

Can clay particles, ozone, or phages stop the algae bloom that is killing wildlife and posing a health risk to humans?

Organophosphates jeopardize dozens of species, a federal review finds.

From their smaller size and fewer tentacles, nettle jellyfish inhabiting the Chesapeake Bay are noticeably different from their ocean-dwelling counterparts, prompting scientists to classify the two as different species.

At the University of Texas’s Marine Science Institute, the hurricane caused more than $100 million in damage, killed hundreds of study animals, and displaced numerous researchers, but its work continues.

The president’s picks for the two science-related positions must be confirmed by the Senate. 

Certain corals in the Gulf of Mexico were devastated by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s reverberating destruction.

The latest stats on volunteers’ efforts in recent months to preserve environmental information generated by federal science agencies

The opah, or moonfish, is a deep-sea fish that regulates its body temperature more like a mammal than any of its finned kin, researchers have determined.

Without major investment, the federal oceanographic fleet will shrink to a third of its current size over the next 20 years.

President Obama released his proposed 2013 budget request, featuring a 1 percent increase in research spending overall.