Just like a person after one too many cocktails, a few drops of oil can cause coral reef fish to make poor decisions. Damselfish, Chromis species. Photo credit: Jacob Johansen. Just as one too many ...

This story was co-published with Grist as part of their Proof of Concept video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most surprising research. While the Gulf of ...

Editor’s note: Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. This story was originally published by Grist and ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. This story was co-published with Science Friday. While the Gulf of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divers explore a coral reef growing on the legs of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Andy Lewis/Texas Caribbean Charters) A ...

Coast guard members clean up an oil slick that washed ashore from the sunken oil tanker Princess Empress on March 8, 2023 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. Credit: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images Last ...

A hundred miles off the coast of Freeport, dive boats congregate around a series of oil platforms where amberjack and angel fish swim between 300-foot-tall pilings covered in coral. Andy Lewis, who ...

Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with yellow, orange and ...