Underwater diver Danyal Thompson did a slow, crablike crawl as he worked his way through eelgrass in 14 feet of water off China Cove in Corona del Mar on Wednesday, July 7, searching for invasive ...

The New Yor k Times Wirecutter and CNN Underscored rank PlantNet as the best plant identification app for most users. Described by the manufacturer as a “citizen science project,” the app uses a ...

Find out what thrives in the planet's largest, most widespread ecosystem. Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things ...

Kim joined 61 citizen scientist volunteers at the Laguna Ocean Foundation’s one-day BioBlast event on Jan. 31 to get hands-on experience in the field that she wasn’t getting from her textbooks and ...

The species is called Poseidon’s ribbon weed, and researchers say it has spread to cover an area the size of Cincinnati over the past 4,500 years. By Kate Golembiewski In Shark Bay, off the ...

Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial plants appeared. This colorized confocal microscopy image shows the body of an ...