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

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

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 ...

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

So I just looked around, and there’s no lifeguards around. … Me and [my friend] just look at each other, and we just sprinted ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can ...

A video of a woman crawling over the finish line at the Two Oceans Marathon 21.1km event on Sunday has gone viral with viewers split on whether battling to get the finish in such pain was a good ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...