The beautiful, electric blue glowing water can be tough to track in nature – usually lighting up far past bedtime and elusively moving from beach to beach with ocean currents. Other times, the ...

CATCHING AN IRIDESCENT FLASH... across the ocean's surface isn't a totally unexpected experience for the lover of the damp. You might have seen a spyhopping whale or a splashing seabird or perhaps the ...

Most beaches of Southern California experience these glowing waves during the warmer months, and to be able to witness this ...

The phenomenon of bioluminescence can be observed both on land and in the water, and the magic lies in nature's chemistry.

For hundreds of years sailors have told stories about miles of glowing ocean during a moonless night. In 1849, on the Arabian Sea, Captain Kempthorne, described a "most extraordinary phenomenon of the ...

Bioluminescent microalgae are creating a natural blue glow when the water is stirred up. Finding high concentrations of the algae can be hit or miss, but the sightings have been common enough lately ...

The public is invited to take part in an ocean journey that will give them to chance to witness the glowing blue waters caused by seasonal algal blooms in Southern California. The Ocean Institute, a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Pulling together the themes of glowing ocean creatures from last week and ...

Imagine being a sailor crossing the Indian Ocean 400-years ago and suddenly witnessing a vast area of glowing ocean water as far as the eye can see. This blue-green glow was so bright it could light ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the stink of decaying ocean life is in all our noses this week as the algae that turned local waves neon blue are now dying off in huge numbers. Local ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...