Pic o’ the Week: Ocean Beauty on the Beach

In these tumultuous times take time every day to notice beauty in our natural world. Image via Beach4Art Here, a holiday wreath made with elements from the ocean Pray and work for peace everywhere on our remarkable ocean planet

Pic o’ the Week: Bioluminescent Beach

Will Ho is among those lucky enough to witness a beach aglow in nature's own neon. While honeymooning in the Maldives, he saw this beach glittering with ... yes! ostracod crustaceans! By the Dusit Thani resort, Mudhdhoo, Baa Atoll, Maldives. Photo copyright Will Ho. These entrancing photos have spread across the web, with one scientific …

Pic o’ the Week: Sand Grain Kaleidoscope

Ah! If I had the eyes to see,And brain to understand,I think Life's mystery might beSolved in this grain of sand. --Robert William Service   Here, a microphotograph by Dr. Gary Greenberg of sand, that stuff the we love to get between our toes on the beach. Greenberg's passion is revealing the 'secret beauty of nature' by …

Ode to Kelp

The Tuft of Kelp All dripping in tangles green, Cast up by a lonely sea If purer for that, O Weed, Bitterer, too, are ye? - by Herman Melville - photo by David Wollum Torrey Pines State Beach, San Diego, California

Sea turtle hatchlings LOVE beach resort lights

There's bound to be messiness when creatures who've roamed the seas and beaches for millions of years face the relatively newfangled phenomenon of artifical light. Scientists believe that sea turtle hatchlings, when they emerge from their shells on beaches around the world, institnctually move in the direction where the sky is brightest. On a beach …