To learn about how polar ice sheets melted during an ancient era, scientists examined fossil coral reefs in the tropics.

Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is ...

This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One.

Geoscientists Professor Anne Bernhardt of Freie Universität Berlin and PD Dr. Wolfgang Schwanghart of the University of ...

Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

With coral reefs and sinkholes, shipwrecks and submerged hotels, the sea is brimming with scenery that even landlubbers will ...

If the Gulf Stream weakens, Europe will become the odd one out on a warming planet. It will warm less than other regions, or ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...

Recent signals from both governments have underscored how their navies could play a central role in their next face-off.

Friday Harbor on San Juan Island exists as a blissful anomaly in our hyper-connected world—a community where nature sets the ...

San Juan Island National Historical Park commemorates the Pig War—possibly history’s most peculiar international conflict, triggered by the shooting of a pig in 1859 and resolved without human ...