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There's debate among scientists over whether freshwater diversions are the key to saving Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coast.

More than 300,000 youth nationwide are learning about Rutgers’ pioneering ocean research using underwater gliders to understand the effects of climate change as part of this year’s 4-H STEM Challenge.

LSU researchers received a $1.4 million grant to study the impact severe weather disturbances have on the western portion of the Gulf of Mexico.

Researchers at LSU are joining a group of scientists from four universities to investigate naturally occurring methane emissions in Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

Since ancient times, humans have extracted salts, like table salt, from the ocean. While table salt is the easiest to obtain, seawater is a rich source of different minerals, and researchers are e ...

Scientists have discovered a method to separate pure magnesium salt, a raw material for magnesium metal, from the ocean.

They might be pretty, but boy can they sting.A rare, purple jellyfish called

The rare mauve stinger jellyfish, which is capable of stinging not just from its tentacles but from all over its body, has been sighted along the Jersey Shore.

The so-called dead zone where the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, an area of low oxygen that cannot sustain life, clocked in at 3,275 square miles this year -- below the recent average and smaller than what was previously predicted, but almost twice the target goal set by the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force.