An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

This Earth Day, sustainability editor Juliet Kinsman shares her favorite voluntourism opportunities around the world—from ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

To mitigate the impact of sea-level rise, hurricanes, storm surge and other factors contributing to coastal erosion, NFL ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

Researchers said they discovered a "biological treasure chest" of corals located in an underwater lagoon off a remote South ...

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

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The country’s big insurers have found themselves in a political storm as the cost of policies balloons $30 billion over a ...

Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.