As people around the world celebrate Earth Day this year by planting trees and turning off a few lights, scientists look ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

At the end of the lake is a 98.4-feet-high waterfall called Bøsdalafossur running over the edge to the Atlantic Ocean, almost ...

Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue officials said the holiday and the rip currents were why so many people needed help.

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

When she walked into her first student board meeting. Tiara Moore saw "30 eyeballs all on white faces." She calls up this startling memory in her paper, "The Only Black Person in the Room," which was ...

A photographer used her craft to document how fast fashion is rapidly becoming a danger to the environment. Mandy Barker ...

Fifteen years after the oil spill, the legacy of Corexit dispersants continues to manifest in the broken bodies and shattered ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of ...

Researchers have compiled the a new database of accounts of “milky seas,” pairing historic reports with satellite ...

A new study finds that phytoplankton blooms, often seen near the separation point of western boundary currents, are supported ...