While most of us have seen brown sand on beaches, some have been luckier to witness white sand. However, only a rare few have seen black sand. Here are some places where black sand is found ...

The new species is named Hylaeus paumako in a nod to the Hawaiian word “paumākō,” which means grief or mourning, according to ...

Tar balls are washing up on Palm Beach County beaches. Here’s what you need to know about where they come from and why they’re a concern.

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology (HIMB) have uncovered 10 new species of marine sponges in Kaneohe Bay.