The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

New EU Ocean Pact Criticized by Environmental Groups. Scientists, government officials, companies, and environmentalists are gathering at the third United Nations Ocean Conference beginning June 9 in ...

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

Theo Carr is our “librarian” today as we enter the National Science Foundation’s Ice Core Facility (NSF-ICF) in Lakewood, Colorado, just west of Denver. The building holds the largest archive of ice ...

Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...

Lake Mead, Nev.—The official crash report said the pilots were flying low to collect a last bit of scientific data before returning to base and that the instruments on their B-29 aircraft were ...

In a statement, the researchers say there’s no immediate danger of buildings falling down, but the “underground climate change” is occurring at an alarming rate.It’s not caused by greenhouse gases ...

World leaders, politicians, and titans of industry gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week to discuss global issues, including this year’s focus—the war in Ukraine, ...

Becky Rom, of the organization Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, told the Duluth News Tribune that the area is a paradise of woods and water and a world-class outdoor destination, serving as an ...