Cypress tree forest on the seafloor off Alabama reveals how extreme storms and rising seas transformed the coastline 75,000 ...

To halt the decline of a vital ocean ecosystem, volunteer divers armed with hammers worked tirelessly for countless hours. The Guardian reported that the kelp forest off the coast of Rancho Palos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell ...

Every year, on a late summer night, Eva Pagaling joins a group of fellow Chumash paddlers who climb into a tomol, a handcrafted wood-plank canoe, for an eight-to-ten-hour voyage from the California ...

The golden–brown, long, fluttering blades of "crayweed" have long been a beautiful and useful seaweed that decorates Australia's southeastern coast. It plays a crucial role in creating an underwater ...

This was my 12 th year as an outdoors reporter at the Statesman Journal, but I get to feel young by being joined by our two outdoors journalism interns. Emma Logan, a University of Oregon graduate, ...

“Underwater forest” is not a metaphor — this is a not a coral reef or a sea grass bed that resembles surface woodlands but bona fide trees with roots and leaves. For thousands of years, this cypress ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — It was 6 a.m. at the dock on a Tuesday in December, and the weather did not look promising. Fog hovered over the water, and the engine of the Research Vessel E.O. Wilson rumbled ...