The Columbia River is critical for fish, energy, commerce and identity. But it faces an uncertain future. How much more can ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

A visit to Tikkun fills the heart. Walk the land. See the trees. Sit in the quiet of the orchard with Ben and Victoria. You’ll understand why this place is more than a seven-acre food forest and ...

If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so much that we do not understand about life on Earth, let alone about where ...

A new study reveals Mars’s missing water may have slowly seeped underground, becoming trapped in ancient aquifers beneath the surface.

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

Located along the ever-busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Isasi cemetery is a place where the dead find little peace. Overcrowded ...

Knowing whether the choices you make on holiday are harming or helping the wildlife you are there to spot can be hard.

A groundbreaking study reveals that South Africa's rising landmass isn't due to volcanic activity, but rather the Earth's ...

“We find plastics there,” said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University.

They say that this well never runs dry, that there is always an unending supply of sweet, fresh water, drawn from a deep reservoir cradled in the belly of the earth. Many times, the rain has failed ...

April’s Earth Month should have made us curious about what we can do to tread more lightly on the planet. We may think of reusing and recycling or driving less, but we’re less likely to focus on ...