Environment

Italy on Thursday declared a state of emergency for Venice after severe storms coinciding with a high tide on Nov. 12 caused extensive flooding in the lagoon city, with waters ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a statement on Nov. 4, that the United States will be ...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a gunman who opened fire about a mile from the border ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI—China dumped a total of 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters in 2018, a 27 ...

The Trump Administration announced in September their decision to withdraw California’s waiver from the 2013 Clean Air Act. ...

Leaders of France, Germany, and Australia criticized teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg after she accused them on the ...

With 91 percent of the 8.8 million tons of plastic added to oceans each year originating in rivers, ...

An expedition revealed rare close footage of a deep-sea shark that typically weighs more than a ton on ...

A Finnish study done by researchers at the University of Turku found that mankind only accounts for a ...

The US Wants to Start Dumping Rat Poison on These Islands. It Will Help the Birds.

Federal officials raised the alert level Tuesday for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which last ...

The number of stranded dolphins across the Gulf Coast has jumped, tripling the number of deaths so far ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Residents of a town in Cameroon are complaining about damage to their homes caused by a nearby ...

A staggering number of small earthquakes that rocked Yellowstone National Park between 2017 and 2018 had brought fears ...

A Texas businessman and deep-sea explorer descended 35,853 feet into the depths of the Pacific Ocean to shatter ...

PARIS, France—The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t ...

WASHINGTON—A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is ...

Viral video footage shows the moment an orangutan seemingly attempts to fight off an excavator in Indonesia. According ...

Amidst the plastic waste that is harming the marine ecosystem and its inhabitants, one brewery in Florida is ...

Scientists drilled down into a lake that exists beneath almost 1,100 meters (approximately 3,600 feet) of ice on ...

Six wolves died due to the actions of people in and around Yellowstone National Park, according to a ...

The ocean is full of really strange creatures, all at different depths in the ocean. As strong ocean ...

Some weather experts say a polar vortex disruption could hit the United States and Canada by the end ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A rarely seen shark embryo. Corals up to 7 feet (2 meters) high. Sponges with ...

An independent climate scientist recently cast doubts on a major ocean warming study, causing the researchers to pull ...

Access to safe and clean drinking water is a basic necessity, but as the world’s cities grow it ...

Humans have killed about 60 percent of animals, including mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles, on the planet since ...