Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.

The presence of humans and human infrastructure in U.S. national parks has lasting effects on the behaviours of the large ...

As climate change intensifies across the global ocean, fish stocks are shifting their distributions in search of suitable ...

Researchers have identified the cause of the wasting disease that has killed billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska since 2013: a strain of the Vibrio pectenicida bacteria.

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers.

UBC botanists have placed seaweed in the underwater equivalent of a wind tunnel to get a better idea of how different types of algae withstand the onslaught of strong waves and currents.

The loss of large predator animals across the globe is having unanticipated impacts on processes as diverse as human disease dynamics, wildfires and biogeochemical cycles, according to new research by ...

Raymond Anderson, a leading marine natural product chemist with both Chemistry and Earth and Ocean Sciences, has received the 2012 Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal. The CIC Medal is given ...