Following the removal of four dams from the Klamath River, which flows through California and Oregon, a group of young ...

Old Dominion graduate student Mauricio Gonzalez works on Rich Whittecar’s research on sand dunes at First Landing on Thursday. They dig deep into the sand to get samples that are old enough and ...

Hidden away in the northwestern corner of Illinois, where the landscape suddenly decides flat is boring, lies a cascading ...

Stonelick State Park in Pleasant Plain is 1,058 acres of pristine natural beauty that somehow remains one of the Buckeye State’s best-kept secrets, despite being just a short drive from Cincinnati.

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of the past 750,000 years. These insights challenge long-standing theories. For ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

The journey helped save Jamestown – and inspired Shakespeare! We asked Virginia Humanities for insight into the voyage of the Sea Venture. Here are excerpts from the organization's Encyclopedia ...

The idea, known as deep-sea mining, could provide the metals like copper, nickel and cobalt which are needed for the green technology used in electric car batteries and other renewable energy.