U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced legislation Thursday that would designate the Alabama Underwater Forest as a National Marine Sanctuary, weeks after the House of Representatives passed a similar ...

U.S. Sen Tommy Tuberville has introduced legislation that would preserve a trove of fossilized cypress trees as a National Marine Sanctuary. A bill that would designate the Underwater Forest, which is ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - A local diver who agreed to help find a fisherman’s lost pole in 2005 never found the rod but instead stumbled on to something much more significant – an ancient river ...

An Alabama legislator is championing an unconventional cause — the push to grant federal protection as a National Marine Sanctuary to an ancient forest thriving beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico ...

COASTAL ALABAMA – An underwater forest found five miles south of Coastal Alabama is providing valuable insights for scientists at the University of Idaho. Associate Professor Grant Harley and his ...

This was my 12 th year as an outdoors reporter at the Statesman Journal, but I get to feel young by being joined by our two outdoors journalism interns. Emma Logan, a University of Oregon graduate, ...

“Underwater forest” is not a metaphor — this is a not a coral reef or a sea grass bed that resembles surface woodlands but bona fide trees with roots and leaves. For thousands of years, this cypress ...

The internet- especially netizens who seemingly love to swim in every ‘waterbody’ possible- were left ‘enchanted’, after a video of an ‘underwater forest’ was shared on social media. Believe it or not ...

About 10 miles off the Alabama coast, Ben Raines gently falls backward from a boat into the Gulf of Mexico, a scuba tank strapped to his back and handsaw on his belt. He's on a mission to collect ...

The ancient cypress forest off the coast of Alabama was once thought to be a rumor – that is – until Hurricane Ivan hit Alabama in 2004, exposing the primeval forest. Ben Raines – an environmental ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — It was 6 a.m. at the dock on a Tuesday in December, and the weather did not look promising. Fog hovered over the water, and the engine of the Research Vessel E.O. Wilson rumbled ...