CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) ─ State health and environmental officials are warning swimmers that “a high abundance” of Atlantic sea nettle jellyfish have been spotted in two Charlestown ponds. The R.I.

CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) ─ Sen. Jack Reed is calling upon the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to investigate the significant increase in the sea nettle jellyfish population at ...

Thousands of jellyfish are gathering by the coast of Rhode Island, and they're not afraid to use their stingers against potential foes, according to news sources. Even so, scientists are puzzled over ...

For more than 500 million years – well before dinosaurs ever thought of existing – jellyfish have floated through the world’s oceans. Today, 2,000 species of jellyfish have been discovered around the ...

Rhode Island is seeing a mysterious increase in the number of Atlantic Sea Nettle jellyfish along the state’s coast, according to its Division of Fish and Wildlife Outdoor Education. In a Facebook ...

WASHINGTON - Before planning your next beach outing on Chesapeake Bay, you will of course check the weather forecast, and before long, you may be able to check the jellyfish forecast as well. A team ...

Thousands of jellyfish that can deliver a painful sting have been spotted in two Charlestown salt ponds, according to the state Department of Environmental Management. The state departments of Health ...

A new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea--one of the U.S.'s most productive fisheries--into veritable jellytoriums ...

Atlantic Sea Nettles, a species of jellyfish that can be found from Cape Cod to the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico, are now populating Rhode Island waters at alarming rates. CHARLESTOWN, R.I. — A ...

The annual arrival of visitors to Maryland and Delaware beaches during the summer also welcomes guests of the stinging variety in jellyfish. While there are four species of stinging jellyfish native ...