COASTAL ALABAMA – An underwater forest found five miles south of Coastal Alabama is providing valuable insights for scientists at the University of Idaho. Associate Professor Grant Harley and his ...

Undulating meadows of seagrass beneath the Hudson River are key indicators of the waterway’s health — but the dense underwater fields have shrunk by more than 40% over the past two decades. The New ...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced legislation Thursday that would designate the Alabama Underwater Forest as a National Marine Sanctuary, weeks after the House of Representatives passed a similar ...

Rainforests from South America to Southeast Asia are known to be essential for life on Earth, but there are also lesser known ...

U.S. Sen Tommy Tuberville has introduced legislation that would preserve a trove of fossilized cypress trees as a National Marine Sanctuary. A bill that would designate the Underwater Forest, which is ...

An Alabama legislator is championing an unconventional cause — the push to grant federal protection as a National Marine Sanctuary to an ancient forest thriving beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - A local diver who agreed to help find a fisherman’s lost pole in 2005 never found the rod but instead stumbled on to something much more significant – an ancient river ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A forest submerged on the bottom of a Sierra Nevada lake holds evidence of a massive drought hundreds of years ago, scientists said. And as Nevada and much of the country endures one ...

Scientists discovered a species off the Alabama coast that is part of group of mussels never before seen at such shallow depths. By Veronique Greenwood The creature was tiny, about the size and color ...

Lake Michigan wasn’t always a lake. At least not the lake we know today. Thousands of years, and remnants of past lives, all lie under its surface, from ancient shorelines to a submerged forest, and ...