A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

The federal government paid about $40 million for the vessel. To avoid risks posed by winter conditions in the North Atlantic, the ferry moved south toward Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa ...

CBS Boston Meteorologist Jacob Wycoff indicated Friday that the Northeast would miss the brunt of the storm, but the Mid-Atlantic could ... blasting winds from the north may shock people after ...

Darrick Mallory, 53, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Jan. 2 to first-degree possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. As part of ...

Edmonton police say they are investigating the death of a woman who was found near the North Saskatchewan River on Dec. 30. EPS says around 4:45 p.m., a woman was found dead on the riverbank east of ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey announced the Magnetic North Pole has a new position. Global geomagnetic field modeler William Brown ...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a woman’s body was found near the North Saskatchewan River on Monday. On Monday, at roughly 4:45 p.m., a woman was found dead on the riverbank east of ...

North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...

North Atlantic right whales should live well past 100 years, but threats to the endangered species, including from commercial crab and lobster fishing, have cut their lifespan to a fraction of ...

Two men row a boat in front of a flooded RV park after an extreme atmospheric river event brought flooding to Sonoma County in California in November 2024. An atmospheric river is a long plume of ...