The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Tasha Van Zandt went to great lengths to make her documentary A Life Illuminated – and to enormous depths. More than ...

Explore bioluminescence, the living lights of Earth's deep oceans and forests. Discover the science behind nature's glow, from fireflies to deep-sea creatu ...

An international team of researchers, led by Danielle DeLeo from the Smithsonian Institution, has identified eight organisms with previously unknown luminosity. Using genetic findings from these ...

“A Life Illuminated,” a 2025 documentary by Tasha Van Zandt about famed marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder (J'73), premiered for Boston audiences on Oct. 22. The historic Coolidge Corner Theatre in ...

Whether it's the winter dance of the Northern Lights or the summertime glow of fireflies, displays of natural light fascinate us humans. Bioluminescence is the source of many such light shows in the ...

What lurks in the darkest depths of the ocean? Marine biologist Edie Widder has dedicated her life to studying this question and she's found an answer - light. EDIE WIDDER: I was stunned by how much ...

The sea sparkle, a bioluminescent plankton, formally known as Noctiluca scintillans, has been illuminating the night along ...

In late October and early November, many of Southern California’s beaches had bright blue waves. The glow was caused by large amounts of phytoplankton, a type of small photosynthetic organism at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August's heat is here, and with 80-degree temperatures lasting well into the evenings, there's no better place to be than on the ...

What lurks in the darkest depths of the ocean? Marine biologist Edie Widder has dedicated her life to studying this question and she's found an answer - light. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "A LIFE ...